The correct answer is nearly doubled the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase was bought by president Thomas Jefferson in 1803 from the French. This resulted in the United States gaining roughly 800,00 square miles of territory, essentially doubling the size of the United States. This purchase was a huge step forward in American expansion, as this territory would eventually turn into part of at least 13 different US states in the future.
The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States, making it one of the largest nations in the world. Thus, the correct option is D). nearly doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase was the possession of the territory of the Louisiana by the United States from the time of French First Republic in 1803. The United States purchased the half of the imperials rights from the western of the Mississippi River basin from France.
As France was failed to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, then the forthcoming war with Great Britain and blockade of France combined with French economic difficulties that made the Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States.
With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827,000 square miles of French land that nearly doubled the size of the United States.
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