Fifteen million dollars is the original amount spent by the U.S. to France for The Louisiana Purchase, and by today's standards, the price of the expansive territory is still considered a steal.

with the United States buying the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, or around four cents an acre. The deal, which included much of the 15 modern-day states between the Mississippi ...

The soldiers from Ft. Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr on a February morning in 1807, on a muddy road near the hamlet of Wakefield. Burr's fall from grace seemed total.

First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. (This limitation was ...

In 1805, Wilkinson had been named territorial governor for the Louisiana Territory, which through a somewhat confusing naming scheme meant the territory north of what is now Louisiana ...