Can you name the current states whose land the U.S. acquired at least in part through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803?

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Louisiana Purchase States Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: September 24th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 88,394

Tags: State Quizzes, part, least, current, land, louisiana, purchase, acquired, through, 1803, Louisiana Purchase

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	Onno:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:25 GMT	35 points
	Wow, this one needed some fast thinking and typing. Great quiz though.

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	rockgolf:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	67 points
	So about 10% didn't figure that one of the states in the Louisiana purchase was... Louisiana?

	Qazza2k9:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	31 points
	1 minute, really????

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	Morbo:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	31 points
	Would've gotten them all with a little more time. One minute zips by pretty quick. Two minutes or even 90 seconds would make this quiz a lot better.

	Etheridge2:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:37 GMT	-4 points
	AWESOME QUIZ...and how perfectly timed, I run weekly trivia quizzes aqnd last night I had a US History round and one of my questions was in what year was the Louisiana purchase and I thought it would be a relatively easy question, but boy was I wrong. I got answers all over the map...I was shocked...how about a question on the Gadsden Purchase or perhaps the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

	pienet:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	11 points
	Good quiz. Would almost deserve to be in the history section instead of geography. The timing sounds right to me : two minutes would be pretty pointless as you could easily type almost all the states without any thinking involved.

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	deadperson21:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	13 points
	It is questionable whether Texas and New Mexico should be included on this quiz ... The border of the Louisiana Territory and New Spain was not officially established in any of the treaties between France and Spain or France and the US until the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819 which set Texas and New Mexico entirely in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

	Mr_Negative:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 19:48 GMT	28 points
	Sporcle quiz controversy, its inevitable.

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	eddddedddd:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:01 GMT	21 points
	According to the map that I am looking at now, small parts of present day Texas and New Mexico were part of the Louisiana Purchase, and that is why they are included in this quiz. Incidentally, present day Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota and Minnesota only have partials in the purchase as well.

	eddddedddd:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:02 GMT	14 points
	I forgot to add that only a part of present day Louisiana was included in the purchase as well.

	BigFlax:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:03 GMT	8 points
	It's a little confusing because we certainly did not get ALL of Texas or New Mexico. But check out, for example, this map: http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Graphics/LA%20Purchase%20Map.jpg

	mungar:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	2 points
	Finally, a quiz with a perfect timing so people can't just type every state. Only missed Iowa. Boo-urns

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:16 GMT	9 points
	I think the time is fine. 9% are getting all of them correct and 35% are missing no more than 2. I got almost all right, had time to enter a few incorrect answers, and then ran out of time before I could guess the last couple. If I knew them all, I would have finished in time. There are limited possible answers so people shouldn't be able to sit there and guess for a while.

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	mattycakes345:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:24 GMT	12 points
	Really sporcle land? Really? 8% of you didnt get that Louisiana was one of the states purchased in the "Louisiana Purchase of 1803"? Really?

	mjenks:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:26 GMT	9 points
	F.Y.I. DAVE, a part of Texas was acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. The northern part, near the Oklahoma panhandle, was part of the land acquired through the Louisiana Purchase.

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	mjenks:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:37 GMT	9 points
	Emperor_Ziggy: The Vikings were the first Europeans to find it, and all we've named for them is a crappy football team in the NFC North.

	montecarlo:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	3 points
	according to BigFlax's linked map, shouldn't alabama and mississippi be included as answers too since small portions of those states were included in the purchase?

	sten:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	0 points
	Phew, got them all with a second to spare! Fast typing sure came in handy here--I had the chance to make a few mistakes. :]

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	Stairway:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	3 points
	I had no idea what the answers were so I just typed in States close to Louisiana, ended up with 11/15. I had a good day.

	curses:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:13 GMT	-2 points
	Oh Napoleon... I think he was compensating for something with that big statement, eh?

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:16 GMT	0 points
	Montecarlo, I would agree.

	segacs:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:18 GMT	9 points
	I think the time is too short. I type pretty fast and only managed to type in 12/15 in the one minute available. The time may be fine for people who already have them memorized and can rattle them off, but for the rest of us (who didn't memorize this in high school), there's no time to think logically about it at all. 2 minutes or even 90 seconds would be better, as it's enough time to stop and think about the answer a bit, but not enough time to guess all 50 states in hopes of getting the right ones. Just my opinion.

	ChinaWhite:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:28 GMT	4 points
	great quiz, but could use about 30 more seconds.

	fm_:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:45 GMT	1 point
	Not enough time. There's no time to think for even a second between typing state names.

	Booger:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:50 GMT	16 points
	I thought this would be a better quiz because of the time pressure. Time pressured quizzes don't allow massive hits and misses, which is a problem with any US State-based quiz. In any event, about 34% of quiz takes are getting everything right or only 1 or 2 wrong. To me, this is a sign that the timing of the quiz is fine. Still, I understand that slow typers will be at a disadvantage. So try again!

	Roman:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 21:52 GMT	0 points
	love that quote. Take that england! lol Anyway, interesting how some states were part of the Purchase, I associate Texas usually with the Mexican American War. Same with Colorado and New Mexico....

	Boomhauer:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 22:03 GMT	2 points
	Really think this is one of Sporcle's great quizes.

	capncokenojoke:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	4 points
	you gotta be a pro thinker and a pro typer to get all these in 1 min

	MovieDynamic:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 22:07 GMT	0 points
	Hey, this quiz has finally brought the number of quizzes to correspond with the year it is now (2009)!

	antiomi:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 22:08 GMT	4 points
	I'm more than a little concerned about the more than 7% of people who didn't get Louisiana

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