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Chapter 9 The Jefferson Era
(1800-1816)
Section 2 The Louisiana Purchase
How did the Louisiana Purchase
affect the nation’s economy and
politics?
Moving West
• Settlers started
moving west into
Kentucky and
Tennessee
• Some to the little
settled Northwest
Territory
• They loaded their
household goods into
Conestoga wagons
• They traveled with
their two most valued
possessions
• Rifles and axes
The US in 1800
• Extended only as far west as
Mississippi
• West of the river was the
Louisiana Territory
• This area belonged to Spain
• Settlers along the Mississippi
river used the river to take
their goods to New Orleans
and then the East Coast
• The Spanish allowed the
Americans to use the lower
Mississippi and trade in New
Orleans
• This allowed the western
farmers to survive
economically
The French Threat
• 1802- The Spanish said the US
could no longer use New
Orleans
• Jefferson confirmed that Spain
secretly gave Louisiana to
France
• This would hurt the US greatly
economically
• France’s leader, Napoleon
Bonaparte, had plans to create
empires in Europe and the
Americas
• Jefferson told Robert Livingston,
the new minister to France, to
offer as much as $10 million for
New Orleans and West Florida
Why did French control of the Louisiana Territory worry
Jefferson?
A. He worried Napoleon would try to start a
war with the United States.
B. He feared France’s alliance
with Native American tribes
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Mississippi would not be able to send their
goods to New Orleans for trade with
East Coast markets.
Revolt in Santo Domingo
• Napoleon saw Santo
Domingo as an important
Caribbean naval base from
which he could control an
American empire
• But, the ideas of the French
Revolution inspired
enslaved Africans to revolt
against the island’s
plantation owners
• Toussaint-Louverture led the
rebels
• The rebels won and
declared the colony an
independent republic
• 1802- Napoleon sent troops
to regain control, but were
not successful
• The country is now called
Haiti
The Nation Expands
• Without Santo Domingo,
Napoleon had little use for
Louisiana
• Napoleon did need
money to finance his war
with Britain
• The French were ready to
sell Louisiana
• French foreign minister
Charles de Talleyrand and
American diplomats made
a deal to sell Louisiana
• For $15 million
Which factor prompted Napoleon’s decision to sell
the Louisiana Territory to the United States?
A. The movement of
American settlers west
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The Louisiana Purchase
• Provided cheap and
abundant land for
farmers
• Gave US control of the
Mississippi River
• Jefferson worried if the
purchase was legal
• The Constitution said
nothing about acquiring
new territory
• By what authority could
Jefferson justify the
purchase?
More of the Louisiana Purchase
• Livingston wrote from
Paris and told Jefferson
to accept the deal
before Napoleon
changed his mind
• Jefferson decided that
the government’s treaty
making powers allowed
the purchase
• October 1803, the
Senate approve the
purchase
• The US doubled in size
The Louisiana Territory
• Little was known about the
Louisiana Purchase
• Jefferson persuaded
Congress to sponsor an
expedition
• Jefferson wanted to know
what animals and plants
were there
• Also where forts could be
set up
• The expedition was to look
for the Northwest Passage
Leaders of the Expedition
• Jefferson chose Meriwether
Lewis, a 28 year old soldier
• The co-leader was William
Clark, a 32 year old friend of
Lewis
• Both were amateur scientists
and conducted business with
Native Americans
• Together they assembled a
crew of expert river men,
gunsmiths, carpenters,
scouts, and a cook
• Two men of mixed Native
American and French heritage
served as interpreters
• Clark brought his African
American servant named York
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Actually called the Corps
of Discovery
• Set out from St. Louis in
spring of 1804
• Lewis and Clark kept
journals and notes of what
they saw
• The group encountered
many Native American
groups
• One young Shoshone
woman named
Sacagawea joined the
group as a guide
Lewis and Clark
• After 18 months and
almost 4,000 miles,
Lewis and Clark reached
the Pacific Ocean
• The expedition returned
in September 1806
• Lewis and Clark
gathered valuable
information about the
West
• Their journey inspired
people to move
westward
Pike’s Expedition
• Jefferson sent others to
explore the Louisiana area
as well
• Lieutenant Zebulon Pike led
two expeditions between
1805 and 1807
• Explored present day
Colorado
• Found what he called Grand
Peak… Today it is called• Pike’s Peak
• Americans learned about the
Great Plains and Rocky
Mountains
• Pike also mapped part of the
Rio Grande and traveled into
what is now Texas
Federalists Plan to Secede
• Federalist feared the new states
formed from the Louisiana
Purchase would be Republican
• The Federalists would lose
power
• A group of Federalists in
Massachusetts plotted to
secede from the Union
• New England would be the
“Northern Confederacy”
• The plotters needed New York to
join and they turned to Aaron
Burr
• The Federalists gave Burr their
support when he ran for
governor of New York in 1804
Burr and Hamilton
• Hamilton never
trusted Burr
• Hamilton was now
concerned about
rumors of secession
• Hamilton accused
Burr of plotting
treason
• Burr blamed Hamilton
for losing the election
• Burr challenged
Hamilton to a duel
Burr and Hamilton’s Duel
• July 1804
• Both were armed with
pistols
• Hamilton pledged not
to shoot at his rival
• Burr aimed to kill
Hamilton
• Shots fire
• Hamilton is shot and
died the next day
• Burr fled to avoid
arrest
How did the Louisiana Purchase
affect the nation’s economy and
politics?
– It secured the Mississippi trade route
– Provided cheap, abundant land for farming
– Raised fears of increased support for the
Republicans which, in turn, caused some
federalists to call for secession
Chapter 9 Section 2 Quiz
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