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 summary: The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies. But under Napoleon Bonaparte, France revived the aspirations to build an empire in North America so the territory was taken back in 1800.