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John McCain complained of the "Cornhusker kickback," the "Louisiana purchase" and the "Florida flim-flam." ; McCain was echoing Republican criticism that votes for the bill, as Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said, "have been bought." But what exactly did he mean?
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Jan 3, 2010 ... Skip to comments. Is There More to the "Louisiana Purchase"? ... What exactly did Mary Landrieu get for her vote supporting Obamacare? ...
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The Cabildo - Two Hundred Years of Louisiana History - Colonization through Reconstruction. ... The United States purchased Louisiana for $11,250,000 and assumed claims of its own citizens against France up to $3,750,000, for a total purchase price of $15 million.
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lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab4.htm
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By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. ... Barry, James P., The Louisiana Purchase, April 1 803 (1973); Chidsey, Donald B., The Louisiana Purchase...
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gatewayno.com/history/LaPurchase.html
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On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty by a vote of twenty-four to seven. ... The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was dated April 30 and formally signed on May 2, 1803.
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The Louisiana Purchase ... After purchasing Louisiana from France, Pres. Jefferson needed to have the land explored to discover exactly what he had purchased.
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It's always important, I think, for people to quantify exactly what they mean when they say "inflation adjustment". ... Trying to assess the exact inflation of a good as strange as Louisiana would be, I think, extremely difficult, for example, and so I suspect that ... Yes, most of this is insured amounts and purchased assets.
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An essay on Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase ... Timeline of the Louisiana Purchase ... ; First page of Louisiana Purchase Treaty; courtesy the Library of Congress...
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In the study of American history, the Louisiana Purchase looms large--and for good reason. Simply put, in 1803 during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River from Napoleon Bonaparte's France.
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