The Louisiana Purchase

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A brass compass and a canoe rest on a riverbank at the edge of open frontier land.
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  • ACQUISITION
  • DOUBLING
  • EXPEDITION
  • EXPLORATION
  • FRONTIER
  • JEFFERSON
  • MISSISSIPPI
  • NAPOLEON
  • TERRITORY
  • TREATY

Napoleon sold a vast French territory to the young American republic in 1803, and Jefferson doubled the nation's size for about four cents an acre. The treaty secured the Mississippi and opened a frontier so wide it needed its own exploration expedition to map.

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