Regions Purchased From Foreign Powers
See also: United States territorial acquisitions and Manifest Destiny- Alaska Purchase (also called "Seward's Folly"), 1867, from Russia, for $7,200,000
- Florida Purchase (or the Spanish Cession), 1819 (effective 1821), from Spain, for $5,000,000; included:
- East Florida
- West Florida
- Sabine Free State or Neutral Ground
- Gadsden Purchase, 1853, from Mexico, for $10,000,000
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803, from France, for $15,000,000.
- Virgin Islands, 1917, from Denmark, for $25,000,000
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—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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