The said territory was purchased by the United States of America from France as the French claimed that that particular territory belonged to them. It was controlled by the French from the late 17th century until the mid-18th century. This purchase was considered one of the most significant transactions by the United States and the French because a vast land of different territorial areas of America such as Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Lowa, Nebraska and some other similar ones were given to the control of the States United. States of America (Parish,