Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase.
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under French rule until 1803, when all the French territory west of the Mississippi River was purchased by the United States.i.e. it was first claimed by France .
Louisiana was purchased from France in 1803. The territory stretched westward from the Mississippi River and included some or all of the modern states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.
France "ruled" the area. South Dakota would have been included in the Louisianna Purchase, in which the US bought the land to the west of the Mississippi River from France in 1803.
Mississippi has a total area of 48,430 square miles, or 125,443 km2.
Mississippi has an area of 48,434 sq miles.
The United States of America was primarily British, but in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country by purchasing the "Louisiana Territory"; an area defined by all lands west of the Mississippi River that drained into the Mississippi. That is, everything west of the Mississippi out to the northern border of Texas, north to Canada, and west as far as the Rockies and Bitterroot mountains of western Montana.
Mississippi's area is 48,434 square miles.
Mississippi's water area is 1,523.24 square miles.