The United States emerged from the Revolutionary War with its independence, but the young nation remained vulnerable to foreign powers. Both France and Spain claimed territory west of the original ...
December 20, 1803 - The completion of the Louisiana Purchase was marked on Dec. 20, 1803, doubling the size of the country. The governor of the Mississippi Territory oversaw the transition of power ...
Souvenir textile commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Inscribed "LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION ST LOUIS 1803 1904;" the souvenir features ...