France
Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the western territory. The Louisiana Purchase was important because it doubled the land size of the US at that time.
purchase?
Yukon Territory
Yukon Territory
Louisiana purchase
$15 million or 3,750,00 francs was the price for the Louisiana Territory. The 1803 agreement was known as the Louisiana Purchase, whereby the French gave up their claims to the western Mississippi valley.
It doubled the size of the us!
American Samoa is a Trust Territory of the US, not Samoa, which was formerly Western Samoa.
In 1803.
Alaska from Russia.
France sold the northwest as part of the Louisiana Purchase, Mexico sold Texas to California, and Russia had prior ownership to Alaska.