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Louisiana Purchase, 1803. 1  The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 kmÂ²) of French territory (Louisiana) in 1803. The cost was 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000).est Answer: Napoleon sold it to the United States for pennies per acre, and ended the period of French Colonialism in the midwestern portion of the landmass we now call the continental United States of America.