1. Two Major Constitutional Challenges and Lessons
... of North and South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, part of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Louisiana. Altogether, the Louisiana Purchase covered land that is now about 23% of the United States. The United States paid France $11,250,000 for the land, in addition to canceling $3,750,000 in war ... day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank. (page 54, Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase). The land the United States purchased from France averaged out to about three cents an acre and it doubled the siz...
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