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Jefferson Presidency: Louisiana Purchase
VOCABULARY & I.D.
Territory
Western Territory
Louisiana Territory
Conestoga Wagon
Secede
Napoleon Bonaparte
Toussaint-Louverture
Lewis & Clark
Sacagawea
Aaron Burr
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Jefferson’s Presidency: Louisiana Purchase
Main Ideas/Questions
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Western Territory
Why did Americans move west?
Describe the pioneers and their journey?
In what part o f the Louisiana Territory
did most pioneers settle?
Foreign Conflict in the Americas
Which country was stopping U.S. traders
from traveling along the Mississippi?
What was U.S. reaction?
How did the ownership of Louisiana
change and why did it worry Jefferson?
What war happened in Haiti that would
ultimately lead the U.S. into Acquiring the
Louisiana Territory?
Louisiana Purchase
Why did France decide to sell the territory
to the United States?
Why was Jefferson worried about the
Louisiana Purchase?
What was the constitutional question
regarding the Louisiana Purchase?
What did Jefferson do to try to avoid a
constitutional question?
What caused Jefferson to avoid the
amendment process?
Federalists
Why did Federalists fear the Louisiana
Purchase?
Describe the Federalist plot?
Which Federalist stopped the plot? How
did he stop the plot?
What happened to Hamilton?
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Jefferson’s Presidency, The Louisiana Purchase
Main Ideas/Questions
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Westward Expansion Map
U.S. States
U.S Territory/Claims
Louisiana Purchase
not a U.S. Territory/Claim
Lewis & Clark, 1804-05
Lewis & Clark, 1805
Lewis & Clark
Jefferson wanted to know more about the mysterious lands west of
the____________________. Even before the_____________
_________________was complete, he persuaded Congress to
sponsor an expedition to explore the new territory.
What were the names of the two expedition
leaders?
What were their backgrounds?
Where did the expedition begin?
The expedition began in ____ and ended 18 months later in ____.
Along the way they met a woman that
became their guide. What was her name?
May 14, 1804—
November 1804—
April 7, 1805—
Aug 12, 1805—
December 25, 1805—
September 23, 2006—
What was learned from the expedition?
CONCLUSION Jefferson’s Presidency, The Louisiana Purchase
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