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to the United States, doubling its size, at a cost of about four cents per acre. 6. Jefferson had secretly asked Congress for ...
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In August 1804 the vice president contacted Anthony Merry, Britain's Minister to the United States. Burr offered to help Britain take Western territory from the United States. Merry immediately ...