It was a negotiation for land between the United States and France in 1803, in which the U.S. gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land to the west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. ... The Continental Congress, composed of the elected representatives from the thirteen colonies; George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph, gave Thomas Jefferson the illustrious task of drafting the Declaration of Independence. ...

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