The Gateway Arch: Celebrating Western Expansion

The Gateway Arch: Celebrating Western Expansion — page 3
land from france In 1803 the United States western border was the Mississippi River Then President Thomas Jefferson bought about 828,000 square miles of land from France He did not even know what this part of North America was like The price was 15 million dollars The land stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada This land was called the Louisiana Purchase 6