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The Louisiana Purchase was a 1803 treaty in which the United States bought the vast Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the nation's size. It secured control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans, fueling westward expansion and economic growth. The deal cost $15 million—about four cents per acre—making it the largest land acquisition in American history.