Now that was one complicated real estate transaction!
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 15 million dollars. At the time this territory encompassed about half of the United States. Jefferson paid around 3 cents an acre and the size of the U.S. doubled! We have all learned what a complicated deal this actually was. Students studied ten different people who were involved in this dating from 1682 when French explorer La Salle claimed Louisiana for France to 1803 when the Purchase was finalized. Each represented a different person and we formed the human timeline pictured here. I know we all enjoyed this “hands on” approach.
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