... Purchase was bought for a sum of fifth-teen million dollars from France. That figures at to be about three cents per acre. It added eight hundred and twenty eight thousand square miles of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains to the United States national territory. France was in a large war and needed money to keep the battle going; so ... ...

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