The Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Paris · Signed with France

$15 million

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was $15 million.

It doubled the size of the country for less than three cents an acre.

Source: Louisiana Purchase, Wikipedia. Prices are what people paid at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

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