Louisiana Purchase

It is the year 1803 and it's April. There was a treaty that was signed and given to the United States as Louisiana territory. It consisted of about two million square miles and crossed over the Mississippe River to the Rocky Mountains. We paid 15 million dollars for this to happen. We obtained the land by sending James Monroe and Robert Livingston to Paris, France to come to an final agreement on the purchase of some land near Mississippi. They came to either that would happen or free navigation on the Mississippi River. The French offered us the whole territory. Jefferson was very pleased with the treaty, allowing our nation to almost double in size.
Having said this, it is a great part of our history today. It allowed them to broaden their borders and call it theirs. Down the Mississippi River was around the Spanish territory. They could sail their vessels and ships down the river. They could come to a whole and create a more diverse purpose. There was a positive side of the river being in our use. It allowed us to sail over to Europe and inflict new ideas upon them.