What was surprising about the Louisiana purchase

Napoleon offered New Orleans and the entire Louisiana Territory. Some believed that Napoleon would invade the United States through the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase was huge. It totaled 828,000 square miles and all or part of what would later become 15 different states. It doubled the size of the United States and made it a major world nation. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.

special interest groups must step back and let the process work itself out a representative can amend it at several points in the congressional staffers must do homework and report to the floor on what they 've learned