1 Committee consideration by Ways and Means. 2  Passed the House on October 8, 2009 (416â0) 3  Passed the Senate as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on December 24, 2009 (60â39) with amendment.  House agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010 (219â212)
Louisiana Purchase, 1803. The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
Louisiana Purchase the territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley and including the modern state of Louisiana. The area had been explored by France, ceded to Spain in 1762, and returned to France in 1800.