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Why did Spain agree to return Louisiana to France, and why did that decision worry Jefferson?

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The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.

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