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Louisiana Purchase
     
Louisiana Purchase

the Louisiana Purchase

the area of land which the US bought from France in 1803. It covered the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the US.
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