Question 7 • SY 25-26_NJ-U.S. History I_McGeehan_MP2
The Louisiana Purchase added a vast territory—about 828,000 square miles—to the United States in 1803. That was roughly as much land as the country already had, so the purchase nearly doubled the nation’s size. The forty-ninth parallel border was established later, not by the Louisiana Purchase.
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