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On this day in 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase, a multimillion-dollar land deal between the United States and France that added about 828,000 square miles of land to the U.S.

Learn about York, a Black enslaved laborer who accompanied Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their expedition to cross the newly acquired territory from the Louisiana Purchase.

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