Section 2

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Northwest ordinance of
1787: Established process where territories in West could become States.
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Under act Americans were able to buy land in small parcels and on credit.
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Federal land offices appeared across the west, making the transfer of land easier from the government to private citizens.

 River big source for transportation of goods.
 Spain controlled New
Orleans.
 1795: Washington sends
Thomas Pinckney to keep vital port open.
 Pinckney Treaty:
 Spain agreed to let American ship their goods down the miss. And store them in NO.

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Mississippi River important to
American trade to foreign markets.
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Napoleon took over Spanish land including New Orleans.
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Charged Large sums of money to Americans to pass through.
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Jefferson appointed Robert
Livingston and James Monroe to be sent to Paris in 1803 to buy the city of New Orleans.

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Napoleon first wanted to create a new French Empire in the America’s.
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After failing to crush a rebellion on the French
Island of Haiti led by
Toussaint L’Ouverture, he changed his mind.
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Also wanted to sell all of the French claims known as the Louisiana Purchase.
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Not wanting him to wait on this idea, Monroe and
Livingston offered
Napoleon $15 million.

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Congress agreed to finance
Jefferson’s call for an expedition to explore the area included in the
Purchase.
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Meriwether Lewis, William Clark.
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Goals were:
 To search for river routes to the western ocean.
 Make contact with the Native
Americans living in the territory.
 Gather information about the region’s natural resources.
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Hired a French-Canadian fur trapper and his wife Sacajawea

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50 men made up the
“Corps of
Discovery”.
 York: Enslaved
African American who was Clarks companion since childhood also joined.

 Saw: Buffalo, Deer, Elk and
Antelope.
 Gifts:
 Peace Medals with the U.S.
Seal.
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Mirrors, Beads, Knives,
Blankets, sewing needles, and fish hooks.
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Mandan's:
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North Dakota.
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Stood with during 1 st Winter.
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Met Sacagawea there.

 New Discoveries:
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Bighorn Sheep.
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Prickly Cactus.
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Grizzly Bears.
 Shoshones:
 Indian Tribe.
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Gave horses for travel.
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Showed best route over the mountain.
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Continental Divide:
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Mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent.

 Built Canoes.
 Floated down the
Columbia River into the
Pacific Northwest.
 November 7, 1805:
 Clark wrote “Great Joy we have been so long anxious to see”.
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They reached their GOAL.
 1806: Returned to St.
Louis.

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Zebulon Pike:
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1805-1807
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From St. Louis
 Explored:
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Upper Miss. River. And Arkansas
River.
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Parts of Present day Colorado and
New Mexico.
 1806:
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Mountain Peak rising above
Colorado plains.
 Today called “Pikes Peak”
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Spanish Territories:
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Arrested taken into Mexico.
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Escorted back to the U.S.
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Striped all of maps and Journals.
 Hid one Map in the barrel of his
Gun.


What was the
Louisiana
Purchase?
 What was the overall goal of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition?

Who was Zebulon
Pike?