The Louisiana Purchase cost the United States about four cents per acre.
Sources
- How the Louisiana Purchase Changed the World (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.npr.org/2003/04/30/1248024/the-bicentennial-of-the-louisiana-purchase (npr.org)
- https://www.archives.gov/dc/highlights/louisiana-purchase (archives.gov)
- https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pg.043.html (plainshumanities.unl.edu)
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