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The Louisiana Purchase
December 20, 1803
The Cabildo, Jackson Square, New Orleans
Andrew rodden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
France had taken the colony back from Spain three weeks earlier, so two transfer ceremonies happened in this same room twenty days apart. Fifteen million dollars, about four cents an acre, doubled the country overnight and committed it to everything west of the Mississippi. Jefferson doubted he had the constitutional authority and did it anyway. Tap the pin to see what was bought.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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