Jefferson doubled the territory of the United states by purchasing the Louisiana territory from France
He completed the Louisiana purchase (1803) which included what is today the central part of the US.
Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase which added all the land drained by the Missouri- Mississippi River complex to the US, some 500 million acres.
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States by purchasing the Territory of Louisiana from France.
Thomas Jefferson
the Louisiana Purchase resulted in a large increase in the size of the United States.
the Louisiana Purchase resulted in a large increase in the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase helped to double the size of the United States.
In 1803, Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, which bought France's claims to the Mississippi River Valley and doubled the size of the US.
Before Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase from Spain the United States was about one third of the size it is today. When they bought the territory the size of the United States doubled because at the time, Spain still owned one third of the United States.
It greatly increased his - and hence the country's - prestige. Jefferson doubled the entire size of the United States overnight at a bargain basement price.
In 1803, Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from Napoleon for $15 million, almost doubling the size of the United States.
He bought the Louisiana Purchase from France (doubling the country's size) for the United States on his own reseasoning without consulting the government.
It depends. In the beginning the Louisiana Territory belonged to Spain. When America finally got a hold of the Louisiana Territory, it did give us a southern seaport and increased the size of the United States.