How was the impact of the Mexican Cession in 1848 similar to the impact of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? Make sure your answer includes specific evidence connecting the broad context of both events. They were both bought from different nations at the same prices, which is 15 million dollars. They both increase the territories of the New Land and help the economy. Both increased sectional tension between the South and the North over the issue of whether they should be slave-states or free slave-states. They both led to compromises to solve the issue of slavery