Use the newspaper headline and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. In which year would this headline above have most likely appeared?

1787

1798

1803

1812

1803 because

In 1803, the United States nearly doubled in size when it bought the Louisiana Territory in a deal that shaped history. American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million dollars, or four cents an acre, in 1803.