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First Map of Louisiana
In 1803 the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory from France for fifteen-million dollars. The Louisiana Purchase, as it is known, doubled the size of the nation and the land would eventually comprise fifteen new states: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, and most or parts of Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
The state of Louisiana, originally called the Territory of Orleans, became the eighteenth state admitted to the Union on April 30, 1812. The first map of the new state, shown here, first appeared in 1814 edition of Mathew Carey's General Atlas. |