The Louisiana Purchase added about 827,000 square miles of land to the United States. In 1804, just before the Louisiana Purchase, where was the western border of the United States's claimed territory?
Answer Mississippi River
Just before the Louisiana Purchase, the western border of the United States went up to the Mississippi River. In the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson purchased roughly 827,000 square miles of land from France west of the Mississippi.
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