Have you been wondering what the huge land deal everyone’s talking about is? Well your pondering stops here. It’s called the Louisiana Purchase and it happened on July 4th 1803. It was a land deal between our country the United States and France. This was no ordinary deal; the purchase gave us about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The purchase was also quite costly but doubled the size of the U.S. at that time.
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