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Describe the significance of the Louisiana Purchase.

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It dramatically expanded the size of the country.

Step-by-step explanation:

Doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.

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