Description Uncharted Territory In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000.
Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Ameri. west of the Mississippi River come true.
The Purchase made President Jefferson\'s dream of extending the U.
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Description Uncharted Territory In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000