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Robert Livingston and James Monroe arranged the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. They wanted to purchase the port of New Orleans and were surprised when the French offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory.
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Pesident Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon Bonapart of France.
The United States bought thousands of acres of land from the French called the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States 22.3% of it's land mass, and almost tripled the size of the country at the time of it's purchase.