The size of the USA doubled as a result of what purchase in 1803?
Correct answer: Louisiana Purchase
Uninitialized
The French forgot to tell the Indians about this deal.
RuralVortex69725
Don't believe any of them had the right to sell any land that was after all stolen.....
Atomic Haze 303
Related to other answers, on March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million (roughly $16.5B in 2007 dollars).
HippieTasha
RuralVortex69725, so true! And they teach our children in School about all the white people "discovering" America... meanwhile there were people all over the world for thousands of years before Christopher Columbus or the pilgrims... bs!
FAMURATTLER
When they started negotiating France didn't even own it all..they were trying to sell land that Spain had a claim on. So they had to buy it from Spain before they could sell it to the US
Player #23230746
HippieTasha,
Before any white man ever saw it. my grandma was a full blood Lakota Sioux. she said the land can not belong to anyone. It belongs to the great spirit. we just get to live on it.
Player #14334506
Player #9579817, sad fact is, no one in the world lives on land that wasn't fought for. I suspect the Native Americans battled and killed each other over territory. All sad.
Player #9579817
Loko, don't look now but your arrogance is showing...reminiscent of the very arrogance that stole the land from native peoples and brutalized them in the process and do not let me get started on slavery and later Jim Crow and much more evil acts...this IS the true history of the u.s.a. With this kind of history in mind you should doing all you can to make this world a better place so that the history of your time may something good about your time period here.
Mary
Player #9443107, way to take things too literal and be hateful. Shows your true character. You're probably one of those parents that think their child is perfect and the teacher is picking on them. Smdh
Mary
Player #9963137, anybody that breaks the law is separated from their family. If they don't want to be separated from their families then don't come in illegally and break our laws.
Eric the red
iwannadie, and if they don't like it you can kill them, right?
Eric the red
Mary, I think that is the point that the American Indians made.
ZenZ
The Louisiana purchase territory totaling 530 million acres was sold by Napoleon for $15M to fund the Napoleonic war (1803 to 1815); Britain declared war on France in 1803. Spain owned the territory before France.
kyme
Player #23230746, this gave chills...the Native culture is so peaceful and centered on the universe. Wish I could talk to your grandma...I'm sure she is/was like a history book
kyme
Player #14334506, but they didn't invade and slaughter each other and then make it seem like they were just to the other side. Those ppl came here said I want that and did what they had to do (murder rape chattal slavery breaking up families).
Nyla06
leo, how could Chris take credit for discovering America when it was already discovered and occupied by Natives.
leo
although the purchase of Alaska would have doubled it in the early 1800s
Player #129810510
Danielle, yes, there were tax payers. The U.S. Government bought it.
Winterwolf2011
Thank god I had enough patience to learn history 🤣
dude
Uninitialized, we told them, not our fault if they don't speak french.
Ez
Atomic Haze 303, That was and IS the best piece of land the states EVER acquired! Why? Because we have missiles buried and pointing at every enemy and even Allies, in case Someone betrays us. Of course this isn’t Top news coverage.
76Bounce
Player #23230746, Yes, it's God's land...he led the ancestors of the Native Americans who believed in God to America [promiseland] to save them from being destroyed by those who did not believe in God.
Joseph
RuralVortex69725, different cultures have been raiding and taking land from others since the cave man days including the indigenous tribes in what is now north America
Joseph
RuralVortex69725, The different native tribes that lived here were stealing land killing and yes enslaving other tribes Long before we got here
Joseph
napoleon needed money to fight his war
Daphnismoon
Player #29067773, I've traveled all over the planet, and America is best in my opinion
Daphnismoon
Brina, yes, France extorted money from Haiti bc a ship load of kidnapped ppl from Africa ran into the ocean & died. Choosing death to enslavement, and France blamed Haiti & wanted compensation for their loss. That$ was never returned making Haiti a very poor country.
Daphnismoon
Player #9579817, if we don't know our true history, we're doomed to repeat it
Daphnismoon
MammaPet0716, that information wasn't banned?
Cristiano Ronaldo
USA is a best country ever!
Player #119364544
iwannadie, don't blame the "current' white man because he did/does nothing wrong?
sudip
Player #23230746, so deeply true
LuVAllWaYs
I have no idea why I thought because Alaska was amongst the last, for whatever reason it didn't click, overlooked Louisianna allt9gether
lonisa
Dustie, so true but just b better person in today presence...
Dustie
HippieTasha, why does it have to be racial? We all have poor encounters with people and many are bad examples granted, but not an entire race is responsible for 1 persons actions.
Khaleesi
Player #26959546, Not theirs to claim, native American already did that.
RKB
Uninitialized, *Native Americans
iwannadie
IM HERE TO READ ALL THE COMMENTS FROM THE CRYBABIES ABOUT THE PAST THAT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT BUT CANT CHANGE. BLAME THE ENGLISH WHITE MAN NOT THE CURRENT AMERICAN WHITE MAN. FFS PEOPLE LET IT GO
Sarah
Strait fact, well said, my friend. 👍
Will Hunting
the Indians arrived in North America over the land bridge connecting Russia to Alaska then spread throughout the continent killing all the natives I guess they got what they had coming to them