Question

How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States?

All of the above

Gave the US control of the Mississippi River

Doubled the amount of land of the US

Gave the US control over the port of New Orleans

Answer 1

The Louisiana Purchase, made 200 years ago this month, nearly doubled the size of the United States. ...

All or parts of 15 Western states would eventually be carved from its nearly 830,000 square miles, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.