The total of 60 million francs for the territory and 18 million francs for the claims produced a total of 78 million francs, which at the time was about 15 million dollars.
The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million in 1803.
The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million in 1803.
The Louisiana Territory cost 15 million dollars and was sold in 1803 by France to the United States of America.
$15 million, ( about $219 million equivalent) today was the price.
The US purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napolean (France) for about 68 million Francs.
France ,under Napoleon, sold the Louisiana Territory to the US for $15 million in 1803.
By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The price was 60 million francs, about $15 million; $11,250,000 was to be paid directly, with the balance to be covered by the assumption by the United States of French debts to American citizens.
France controlled the Louisiana territory until 1803. The United States paid France a total of 15 million dollars for the territory.
There are fifteen US states that were wholly or in part part of french colonies. These states were part of the Louisiana territory that the US purchased in 1804 from the French government. The current states that once had territory in the Louisiana territory include: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
Louisiana was a French territory purchased by United States in 1803; Louisiana was not a Spanish territory.
The Louisiana Territory had been a land purchase transaction by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory "Louisiane" in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana Territory.
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States by adding 828,000 square miles of territory from France for $15 million.