Louisiana Purchase Accomplishments

Louisiana Purchase On April 30, 1803, Thomas Jefferson made a treaty with Napoleon of France called the Louisiana Purchase. The purchase included the acquirement of the New Orleans area and 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson bought this land from France for $15 million dollars, with each acre costing about three cents. The Louisiana Purchase was one of Jefferson’s greatest accomplishments because it more than doubled the size of the United States. The land France sold the United States consisted of an unincorporated wilderness containing tens of thousands of Indian, white, and black inhabitants. “Jefferson perceived that that the vast domain now within his reach could form a sprawling ‘empire of liberty’