The Louisiana Purchase was a bargain. But it came at a great human cost. In 1803, the United States nearly doubled in size when it bought the Louisiana Territory in a deal that shaped history.

As you probably know, Louisiana was purchased from France in 1803. France had acquired Louisiana from the Spanish as the result of a successful war against the Spaniards.

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe, a future president, signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty - an accord that doubled the size of the United ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris, doubling the size of the United States and paving the way for ...

On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as France’s flag was replaced by the American flag in a New Orleans ceremony. In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from ...

In 1803, the U.S. purchased Louisiana from the French. The following year, Louisiana was split into two political divisions — the Territory of Louisiana to the north, ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

In one of the volumes of the census of 1870 is a map of "The Acquisition and Transfer of Territory," on which "the Province of Louisiana, 1803," is shown as extending to the Pacific coast on the ...

When the United States bought the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the western boundary was not clearly defined. Into this "neutral strip," a no man's land in which neither the US nor Mexico had ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...