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The United States bought the territory of Louisiana from the French in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The French territory contained what is today parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

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