16h 12min, dec 13, 1803 y - Louisiana Purchase
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A purchase made by Jefferson from Napoleon in 1803 for 50 million dollars. The land stretched from Canada to Mexico, and from the Rockies to the Mississippi. Doubled the size of the current states. The purchase guaranteed the US would become a world power.
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