Thanks to the Louisiana Purchase, by the 1820s the majority of white Americans lived west of the Mississippi River.

Answer 1

This is a multi part answer question. Yes the Louisiana Purchase allowed the us to grow by double its original size.

The easy to navigate Mississippi water ways with its furtile land allowd setterls who where affected by the panic of 1819 economic downturn to move west to this new land.

People saw the purchase as a way to shape the future in a vast expanse west of the mississippi river.