The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase: a. had been claimed by France from the 1600s until the United States acquired it.

b. included all of what is now Texas and the American Southwest.

c. was considered by Jefferson to be practically worthless, yet he did not want it to fall into British hands.

d. stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

e. consisted only of what is today the state of Louisiana and the southern half of Arkansas

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase: stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The correct answer is D

Explanation:

The Louisiana Purchase was made 200 years ago this month. It was nearly doubled the size of the United States. It was one of the most colossal land transactions, involving an area larger than France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the British Isles combined.

All or parts of 15 Western states would eventually be carved from its nearly 830,000 square miles, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

And the price, $15 million, or about four cents an acre, was a breathtaking bargain.

C. was considered by Jefferson to be practically worthless, yet he did not want it to fall into British hands.