This is important: it means you are placing the burden of proof on those who support the alternative hypothesis. The null hypothesis is essentially âinnocent until proven guiltyâ â it can be accepted with little support from the evidence, simply because the evidence doesnât strongly indicate something else.
The Louisiana Purchase is considered the greatest real estate deal in history. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents an acre. The ratification of the Louisiana Purchase treaty by the Senate on October 20, 1803, doubled the size of the United States and opened up the continent to its westward expansion.
Purchased from France in 1803, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, created an opportunity for westward expansion, increased conflict with Native Americans, renewed the question of whether the new territories should be slave or free, and angered the British government by giving France, Britain's European rival, $15 million.