The Louisiana Territory included everything in the Louisiana Purchase north of the 33rd parallel (the southern boundary of the present state of Arkansas).
The present day states that sit in the Louisiana Territory are: Minnesota, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, part of Montana, part of Colorado, part of Wyoming, and Nebraska.
The cost of the Louisiana Purchase was $15 million, less than $1 an acre.
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