1. The Louisiana Purchase
Have you ever explored the woods?
What did you see? Do you keep a
journal? What would you write
about in a journal?
2. Answer to the Do Now:
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3. AMERICA 1800
• By 1800, nearly 1,000,000 Americans lived
between the Appalachian Mountains and the
Mississippi River. Most were farmers.
• They relied on the Mississippi to ship their
wheat and corn to New Orleans.
• From there it would go to ports along Atlantic
coast
4. 1795 America and Spain
• Spain, controlled New Orleans, sometimes
threatened to close the port to Americans. In
1795, President Washington sent Thomas
Pinckney to find a way to keep the port open.
• Pinckney Treaty – Spain lets Americans ship
their goods down the Mississippi and store
them in New Orleans
6. France and Napoleon
• Napoleon Bonaparte – wanted to take over
Europe and probably would of tried for
America too.
• He suffered losses and needed money.
• Sells Louisiana for $15 million to America
7. The purchase
• Jefferson decided to try to buy New Orleans.
• He sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe
to buy New Orleans and West Florida from
Napoleon. They could offer $10 Million.
• France needed money.
• Tallyrand asked Livingston if he wanted to buy
all of Louisiana, not just New Orleans.
8. They offer $4 Million
• “Too Low”
• Talleyrand says go back and see me tomorrow.
• Livingston and Monroe had no authority to buy
all of Louisiana
• Jefferson wanted control of the Mississippi.
• They pay $15 Million
• From this day the US take their place among the
powers of the first rank
9. Constitutional?
• Jefferson hailed the news from France.
• Though he supported limited government he
made a huge purchase for America without
consulting Congress.
• Could the President buy land if it was not in
the constitution?
• In 1803 US took control of Louisiana
12. Sacagawea
Shoshone tribe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnT0k9wdDZo
What were some of the things
Sacagawea did for Lewis and Clark?
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13. Planning an Expedition
• Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis, his private
secretary, to head the expedition. Lewis asked
William Clark to go with him.
• They were to map a route to the Pacific ocean.
14. What they were to do
• As well as “climate as characterized by the
thermometer, by the proportion of rainy,
cloudy, and clear days, by lightning, hail, snow,
ice… the dates at which particular plants put
forth or lose their flower, or leaf, times of
appearance of particular birds, reptiles or
insects.”
15. Lewis and Clark
• Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMHbnjx
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• Start - 3:37 skip to 5:28 – 7:47
16. Corp of Discovery
• May 1804 Lewis and Clark started up the
Missouri River from St. Louis.
• Slow travel and dangerous.
• Peace Medals
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18. Lewis and Clark
Plains
• Marveled at the broad,
grassy plains
• “As far as the eye can
reach.”
• Buffalo, deer, elk, and
antelope.
• For the first winter they
stayed in N. Dakota with the
Mandans.
Rockies
• Early spring.
• Bighorn sheep ran along
the hills, prickly pear cactus
jabbed the explorers’
moccasins.
• A grizzly bear chased Lewis
while he was exploring
alone.
• Meet some Shoshones –
they gave Lewis some
horses and directions.
19. Continental Divide
• A Mountain ridge that separates river systems
flowing toward opposite sides of a continent
20. The Pacific
• November 7, 1805, Clark wrote in his journal,
“Great joy in camp. We are in view of the
ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we have
been so long anxious to see.”
