James Monroe (1758-1831) was an American statesman who served as the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825). #History #LouisianaPurchase #JamesMonroe #AmericanRevolution #MissouriCompromise #MonroeDoctrine #USFoundingFathers #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23597-en/

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was a US military expedition of exploration, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired western lands that comprised the Louisiana Purchase and to reach the Pacific Ocean. #History #LouisianaPurchase #CorpsOfDiscovery #MeriwetherLewis #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition/

The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal made in 1803, in which the United States purchased 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 km²) of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million, or an average of three cents per acre. #History #NapoleonBonaparte #LouisianaPurchase #LewisAndClark #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Louisiana_Purchase/