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The Louisiana Purchase had temporarily satisfied the nation’s desire for expansion—and left behind unanswered questions about the rights the U.S. was willing to guarantee across that land.

Every schoolchild learns about the Louisiana Purchase, the real estate deal that transferred the vast French colony to the United States in 1803 and transformed the nation in the process.