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Exploring the Louisiana territory was important for the us because they had to know what was in the territory that president Thomas Jefferson had purchased. They hadto know who was living there and what kind of resources they had

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It was property that was bought by Thomas Jefferson. Spain would have turned it over to France, but Napolean Bonaparte sold it to Jefferson for $15 million. Jefferson bought it, doubling the size of the nation.

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