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.
All of:ArkansasMissouriIowaNebraskaMost of:MontanaWyomingNorth DakotaOklahomaKansasLouisianaHalf of:ColoradoMinnesotaAnd a tiny part of:New MexicoTexas
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the part of the Louisiana Purchase that would eventually become the State of Louisiana was organized into the Territory of Orleans. The Territory of Louisiana was the other part of the Louisiana purchase that became the State of Arkansas and everything North of that. (The land north of Lake Ponchartrain and east of the Mississippi River was known as "West Florida" and was owned at the time by Great Britain.)
Meriwether Lewis was the leader of an expedition into the Northern part of the Louisiana territory. The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.
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No, Ohio was not part of the territory included in the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase, made in 1803, involved land west of the Mississippi River, while Ohio was established as part of the Northwest Territory, which was organized in 1787. Ohio became a state in 1803, prior to the Louisiana Purchase.
Part or all of the present-day states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. The Louisiana Territory also included part of the present-day Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan; this land was later traded to Canada in exchange for the land in the Dakotas and Minnesota not included in the Louisiana Territory.
No. The Louisana Purchase was completed in 1803. It did not include the area of Texas. Texas was at that time a part of Mexican territory. After a fight for independance with Mexico, Texas became an independent nation in 1836. It became a U.S. state in 1845.
The territory called Louisiana. It comprised following nowadays States: Part of Louisiana, Part of Texas, Part of New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Parto of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Part of North Dakota, Part of Minnesota Part of Montana.
The state of Louisiana was once part of the Louisiana Territory. Other states that were once part of the Louisiana Territory are Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Montana are the other states that were once part of the Louisiana Territory.
Yes, because Louisiana was part of their territory.