In 1803, when was President of the United States, the U.S. purchased
the Louisiana Territory from
France. This was a huge area of
over 800,000 square miles, taking in nearly the entire mid-section of
North America from present-day
Texas and Louisiana up to Montana and North Dakota. This almost
doubled the size of the United
States. The President Choose two brave souls to explore the area for the
first time
those two people where Lewis and Clark
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