On october 20, 1803, the senate ratified the louisiana purchase treaty by a vote of twenty-four to seven. the agreement, which provided for the purchase of the western half of the mississippi river basin from france at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents per acre, doubled the size of the country and paved the way for westward expansion beyond the mississippi.
based on the excerpt, which of the following statements can be inferred about the effect the louisiana purchase would have on the united states?

separate but equal was a legal doctrine in united states constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. under the doctrine, as long as the facilities provided to each race were equal, state and local governments could require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be segregated by race, which was already the case throughout the states of the former confederacy. the phrase was derived from a louisiana law of 1890, although the law actually used the phrase "equal but separate

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