The state of Missouri was part of what territorial acquisition?

Louisiana Purchase

Explanation:

on August 10, 1821,Missouri entered the Union as the twenty-fourth state.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire