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On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase, Congress admitted Louisiana as the eighteenth state in the Union.The convention requested that Congress add the Florida parishes to the new state, and Congress honored this request.n April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase, Congress admitted Louisiana as the eighteenth state in the Union.
Louisiana and the Port of New Orleans were returned to Napoleonic France by secret agreement in 1800. By 1803, Napoleon sold the territory to the United States. In 1803, some eight thousand people lived in the Port of New Orleans, half of them white.