When both countries signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on May 2, 1803 (backdated to April 30), the boundaries of the ...

Art: II In the cession made by the preceeding article are included the adjacent Islands belonging to Louisiana all public ... and the 30th of April 1803. The Government of the United States ...

First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. (This limitation was ...

Louisiana Purchase State Park in east Arkansas is one ... A treaty with France in 1803 stated the United States would purchase the vast tract of 830,000 square miles for $15 million.