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Why was US acquisition of the Louisiana Territory significant?

It was the first US annexation of an independent nation.
It nearly doubled the size of the United States.
It was the first US territory acquired through war.
It extended the United States to the West Coast.

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B. It nearly doubled the size of the United States.

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B it nearly doubled in size of the united states.

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