In 1803 Thomas Jefferson acted upon Napoleon's offer to sell the  Louisiana territory. At the time, Louisiana was a vast French  territory considerably larger than the prese…nt-day state of  Louisiana.
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Home > Educator Resources > Teaching With Documents > Lewis & Clark Expedition. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a splendid piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana territory from France. After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was made, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the great rock mountains in the West.
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History & Culture. The Louisiana Purchase was one of the largest land deals in history. In 1803, the United States paid approximately $15 million dollars for France for over 800,000 square miles of land. This land deal was arguably the greatest achievement of Thomas Jefferson's presidency but also posed a major philosophical problem for Jefferson.
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The Louisiana territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west to the what in the south________ and to what in the north ____________?
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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 and the Louisiana Purchase was finalized on May 2, 1803. Therefore, he would have been 60 years old when he made the purchase. 2 people found this useful.
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exists and is an alternate of . April 30, 1803. was the date that the purchase treaty was signed by American and French negotiators. October 30, 1803 was the day the Senate ratified the treaty. The US took possession on December 20, 1803.
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The Louisiana Purchase, made 200 years ago this month, nearly doubled the size of the United States. By any measure, it was one of the most colossal land transactions in history, involving an area larger than today’s France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the British Isles combined.
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But strained by obligations in Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte decided to sell the territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, ending France's presence in Louisiana. The United States ceded part of the Louisiana Purchase to the United Kingdom in the Treaty of 1818. This section lies above the 49th parallel north in a portion of present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Louisiana (French: La Louisiane; by 1879 [?], La Louisiane française) or French Louisiana was an administrative district of New France. Under French control 1682 to 1762 and 1802 (nominally) to 1803, the area was named in honor of King Louis XIV, by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle.
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When Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, he altered the shape of a nation and the course of history. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and the cost of about four cents an acre was a breathtaking bargain. (The Granger Collection, New York) By Joseph A. Harriss.
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what year was the louisiana purchase made
The Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803. The Louisiana purchase was made in 1803.