In this column, I will talk about the people who occupied this land before the white colonization of the area.

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But since the Louisiana Purchase, the United States has been the colonial power to be reckoned with. ♪♪ ♪♪ -I am Megan Kate Nelson. I am a historian and I write about the West.

Immense in size, the Louisiana Purchase included about 828,000 square miles. Only months earlier, in February 1803, Ohio became the 17th state of the union, part of the old Northwest Territory.

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The Louisiana Territory, in Napoléon’s view, was useful mainly as a granary for Saint Domingue. With the colony in danger of being lost, the territory was less useful.

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Now the Alaska deal is seen as a masterstroke and the Louisiana purchase the greatest achievement of one of America’s greatest presidents. In hindsight, both look extraordinarily good value.

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The Louisiana Purchase In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.

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 ...