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Can you master this Louisiana Purchase quiz before the clock runs out on you?

Early America

Difficulty

Medium

Questions

20

Volts

2/q

One stroke of a pen in 1803 doubled the size of the United States. Between the Mississippi and the western mountains lies a story of French debt and American ambition. Track the expedition that mapped the wild and identify the leaders who gambled it all on a fifteen million dollar deal.