The Louisiana
Purchase
http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/louisianapurchase.html
I. The Purchase
http://totalfratmove.com/tfms-in-history-the-louisiana-purchase/comment-page-2/
A. The United States in 1803
1. New states in the west
depended on the
Mississippi River for
trade
2. The Mississippi was
controlled by New
Orleans – owned by
Spain
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/108lewisclark/108locate1.htm
B. How Europe was involved
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http://www.waterplanet.ws/lewisandclark/
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http://mapsof.net/map/spain-flag-map#.Ubhe0JVWKgE
Spain got tired of trying to keep out
Americans, so they sold Louisiana and
New Orleans to the French
1. Napoleon wanted to
rebuild France’s
empire in North
America
2. He started by trying to
take Haiti
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/images/0712caribbean_haiti.jpg
Why?
3. Napoleon hope to use
Haiti as a supply base
4. He was defeated in
Haiti by former slave
Toussaint L’ Ouverture
5. His dreams of Colonies
in the Americas fell
apart
http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm
C. How the US Gained Louisiana
http://history.howstuffworks.com/revolutionary-war/louisiana-purchase1.htm
1. Jefferson sent Livingston and Monroe to France to
try and buy New Orleans
2. Talleyrand was given orders by Napoleon to sell all
of Louisiana for $15 million
II. Exploration
http://www.pershingms.org/MTT/Louisiana%20Purchase.htm
A. Lewis and Clark
1. To lead the mission
Jefferson selected his
personal secretary
Meriwether Lewis
2. Lewis picked William
Clark to co-lead
3. Goals
a. Find a water route to the
Pacific
b. Report back on their
findings (Natives, plants,
animals, etc…)
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/lewis_clark/lewis_clark.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/
assessment/2002/08/lewis_and_clark.html
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/
B. Native Americans
1. Were informed by
Lewis and Clark that
the US now owned
their land
2. Some traded with and
helped the Expedition
(Nez Perce &
Shoshone) some
attacked (Teton Sioux)
http://www.native-americans-online.com/native-american-ghost-dance.html
C. Sacagawea
1. Member of the
Shoshone Tribe
2. Married to a French
Fur Trapper –
Charbonneau
3. Reasons she went
a. Show that the mission
was peaceful
b. Translate
c. Get them horses
http://www.rappart.com/portfolio/0/131/9011/
D. Pike’s Exploration
1. Goal was to find the
Source of the Red
River
2. Discovered Pike’s Peak
3. Was arrested by the
Spanish by the Rio
Grande
4. Returned home a year
later
http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/uslocal/west/history/pike.htm