The louisiana purchase
a) nearly tripled the size of the united states.
b) improved relations between the united states and britain.
c) set the border between the united states and canada at the forty-ninth parallel.
d) nearly doubled the size of the united states.

b.provides a written record of the transaction

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.