Early Kansas history was rich and often tumultuous, with Native American cultures, the Louisiana Purchase and westward ...

December 20, 1803 - The completion of the Louisiana Purchase was marked on Dec. 20, 1803, doubling the size of the country. The governor of the Mississippi Territory oversaw the transition of power ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S. of ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The United States Senate ratified a landmark treaty that doubled the size of the country and fundamentally changed its trajectory on Oct. 14, 1803. It was on that date that the ...

The United States emerged from the Revolutionary War with its independence, but the young nation remained vulnerable to foreign powers. Both France and Spain claimed territory west of the original ...