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The land acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase included the current state of Louisiana. In purchasing France's territories west of the Mississippi, Jefferson took a risk by extending the power of the federal government and testing the limits of the U.S. Constitution.
Originally published as Jefferson's Big Deal: The Louisiana Purchase, in Monticello Newsletter, 14 (Spring 2003). Timeline of the Louisiana Territory 1682 RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claims for France all territory drained by Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and names it Louisiana.