參議院於1803年10月20日批准路易斯安那購買條約 (Louisiana Purchase Treaty)

在十九世紀時的美國，許多拓荒者與農場主人很早就遷徙到西部，以便在密西西比河以西的平原、山丘，與山上開始新的生活。如果不是美國參議院在1803年10月20日以24票同意7票反對的結果，批准了「路易斯安那購買條約」，那麼這些遷徙活動也不會發生了。這個協定讓美國得以用每英畝3分錢的代價，買下密西西比河西岸的大批土地，這也讓美國的領土增加了一倍之多。


In the 1800s, in the United States, pioneers and homesteaders eagerly moved west to start a new life in the plains, hills and mountains west of the Mississippi River. This movement could not have happened without the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, approved by the Senate on October 20, 1803, by a vote of 24-to-7. The agreement, which provided for the purchase of the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France at a price of less than 3 cents per acre, doubled the size of the country.

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