The Louisiana Purchase Treaty (Three documents are included here: the formal treaty of cession, a convention for payment of 60 million francs ($11,250,000) ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris, doubling the size of the United States and paving the way for ...

With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827,000 square miles of French-held land for just four cents an acre. ... Charles IV, to cede the territory back to France in a secret treaty.

On 4 July 1803, US president Thomas Jefferson announced the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty with France. It doubled the size of the United States.

On April 30th, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It’s a massive but imprecisely ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe, a future president, signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty - an accord that doubled the size of the United ...

Two hundred years ago today, the United States signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. For about 4 cents an acre, America more than doubled its size, helping fulfill Thomas Jefferson's dreams for ...

The Louisiana Purchase was a seminal moment for a new nation. ... By that time, Jefferson and his supporters faced an October 31, 1803 deadline to ratify the treaty or lose the purchase.

The Louisiana Purchase was one of the biggest land bargains in American history. When both countries signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on May 2, 1803 (backdated to April 30 ), the boundaries of ...

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 ...

Signed 200 years ago this month, the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 gave Louisiana its distinctive boot shape by officially bringing two disputed regions into the state.

Signed 200 years ago this month, the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 gave Louisiana its distinctive boot shape by officially bringing two disputed regions into the state.