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How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the size of the country?

A. It quadrupled.
B. It stayed basically the same.
C. It doubled.
D. It was cut in half.

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It doubles the size of the USA Expanding the nation from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
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User K Owen
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B) It doubled.

This is because the Louisiana Purchase allowed more expansion towards the west, since there was much more land.

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