Before the Louisiana Purchase, Americans were distrustful that France had re-acquired (from Spain) the lands west of the Mississippi River. “Every eye in the United States is now fixed on the ...

National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled ... the purchase represented a defensive strategy as well. Before the Duel the United States had secured for Spain the "right ...

By 1682, France took ownership of the state before the United States bought it in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Louisiana was named after French King Louis XIV in 1682. So with Louisiana being ...