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.
The True Cost of the Louisiana Purchase. The United States didnât buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land. By Robert Lee. Gen. William T. Sherman negotiating with Sioux leadership in 1868.