The correct answer is A) The United States sent two representatives to buy the Louisiana territory from France in 1803.
The statement that best describes the Louisiana purchase is: The United States sent two representatives to buy the Louisiana territory from France in 1803.
In 1802, Spanish authorities supposedly under the orders of the French ended the Spanish-U.S. treaty that allowed the United States to storage products in New Orleans. As an immediate response, President Jackson sent James Monroe to Paris to begin the purchase conversations with U.S. minister to France, Robert Livingstone. A treaty was signed on May 2, 1803, after the U.S. pay France $11,250,000 for the territory.
