In 1803 Jefferson reasoned that if the Senate ratified the Louisiana Treaty and the House of Representatives appropriated the necessary funds to make the purchase as required by the Constitution ...

When both countries signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on May 2, 1803 (backdated to April 30), the boundaries of the Louisiana Territory were unclear. Livingston asked France’s Minister of ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the ... when Napoléon negotiated the clandestine Treaty of San Ildefonso with Spain’s Charles IV. The treaty called for the return of the ...

The midnight deal Robert Livingston, United States Minister to France, struck with Francois Barbe-Marbois, Napoleon’s Finance ...

King speaks of the rumored cession by Spain to France of Louisiana and the Floridas in ... 1801, Madison first broached the purchase plan in his instructions to Robert R. Livingston, Minister ...

So the Louisiana Purchase treaty (dated April 30) was quickly drawn up and signed on May 2, 1803. Thus, with a few strokes of a pen, and after much sturm und drang in the halls of Congress (Long ...

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 ...

These were the Alaskan Purchase in 1867, the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. Russia's sale of Alaska in 1867 is one of the biggest land deals in history ...

The Louisiana Purchase has been described as the greatest ... the United States declared war on Mexico, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Under the treaty’s terms in 1848, Mexico ...

Ric Trout, of Lafayette, was interested in writing a historical screenplay when he asked Curious Louisiana ... Neither government ratified it as a treaty, but they respected it.