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In the year 1803, the United States of America purchased the approximately 828 million square miles of territory from France, doubling its territory. Because of Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana territory, 15 states were added in the territory of America. It stretched from the Canadian border in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south and from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Mississippi River in the East.
The Ottoman Empire. When one European power annexed a part of its crumbling power, it caused concern that they might get it all. The other European powers wanted a chance at picking it apart too.