When did the us claim or acquired Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 1

The Louisiana Purchase took place in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson of the United States had approached France about the possibility of buying New Orleans, a crucial port at the mouth of the Mississippi River on the U.S.'s Gulf Coast that would enable the U.S. to open up explorations and settlement of the middle portion of the North American continent. France at the time was troubled by a slave revolt in Haiti and was facing war once again with England. They needed money and could not focus their resources on developing a North American empire. They proposed a far larger transaction that Jefferson eagerly accepted. The U.S. purchased 828,000 sq. miles of land that France had claimed in North America, including included all or part of what are now 15 current U.S. States (all of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska; part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including New Orleans, of course, and parts of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado). The U.S. paid $15,00,000 ($11,250,000 in cash and $3,750,000 by cancelling debt France had owed).