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the u.s bought the Louisiana territory from the French for 15 million dollars. The French closed the Mississippi river from the americans causing farmers to suffer (no way to transport goods). The purchase of this land; doubled size of amrica, set up precedents for all future land purchases, increase of knowledge in science (Lewis and Clark, it allowed the U.S to remain neutral (no fighting with the French), opened up the slavery issue, succession.

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Imogene Stehr

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