It was a controversial amount at the time more than the US Treasury owned but the Louisiana Purchase, as it became known, covered land from Canada to the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, and almost doubled the area of the United States.
The US Treasury owned all Canada's land in 1854.
mnli hypothesis: The US Treasury owned all Canada's land in 1854. premise: It was a controversial amount at the time more than the US Treasury owned but the Louisiana Purchase, as it became known, covered land from Canada to the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, and almost doubled the area of the United States.