Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase.

Do Now: Why is Toussaint L’Ouverture considered to be a hero in Haiti?

The Haitian Revolution

• In 1801, Toussaint L'Ouverture led black slaves in a revolt in Haiti against the French, killing 35,000 French soldiers.

Video (15:24) Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L’Ouverture (Museum of the African Diaspora )

Video (9:00) Egalite For All – Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (PBS)

• Haiti became an independent nation in 1804.

The Louisiana Purchase

• France was on the brink of war with Great Britain and needed money.

• Therefore, the French leader, Napoleon, sold all of Louisiana to the U.S. for $15 million in 1803.

* The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S.!

Lewis and Clark

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent to find an all water route across the continent.

(left) Meriwether Lewis and (right) William Clark

• The party consisted of 33 people and Lewis’ dog.

Expedition of Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)

Spanish Territories

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Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, served as their guide and interpreter.

Biography: Sacagawea - Guide and Friend (2:15)

Sacagawea statue in front of the North Dakota State Capitol.

Painting Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia (by Charles Marion Russell, 1905)

Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

Mathematical Instruments:• surveyor’s compass • hand compass • telescope • chronometer (needed to calculate longitude)

Clothing:• 45 flannel shirts • coats • shoes • woolen pants • blankets • knapsacks • stockings

Camp Supplies:• 150 yards of cloth to be oiled and sewn into tents and sheets• 30 steels for striking to make fire • handsaws • hatchets • whetstones • iron corn mill • mosquito curtains • 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines • 12 pounds of soap • 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste concocted by

boiling down beef, eggs and vegetables) • three bushels of salt • writing paper, ink and crayons

Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

Arms and Ammunition:• 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54 caliber rifles • knives • 500 rifle flints • 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets • 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead canisters • 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air,

rather than by flint, spark and powder

Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

Medicine and Medical Supplies:• 50 dozen Dr. Rush’s patented "Rush’s pills" • lancets • forceps • syringes • tourniquets • 1,300 doses of physic • 1,100 hundred doses of emetic • 3,500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer) • other drugs for blistering, salivation and increased kidney

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Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

Traveling Library:• Barton’s Elements of Botany • Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s History of Louisiana • Richard Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy • A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy • The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris • a four-volume dictionary • a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin

classification of plants) • tables for finding longitude and latitude • map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River

Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

Presents for Indian Tribes Encountered:• 12 Dozen pocket mirrors • 4,600 Sewing needles • 144 Small scissors • 10 Pounds (4.5 kilograms) of sewing thread • Silk ribbons• Ivory combs • Handkerchiefs • Yards of bright-colored cloth • 130 Rolls of tobacco • Tomahawks that doubled as pipes • 288 Knives • 20 Pounds (9 kilograms) of assorted beads, mostly blue• 5 Pounds (2 kilograms) of small, white, glass beads

Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Expedition: A Partial Supply List

The Louisiana Purchase in a Nutshell (1:11)

Lewis and Clark: Animated Expedition (8:50) – This is a fantastic, and historically accurate, student creation!

• Lewis and Clark did not find an all water route across the continent.

• However, they:

- learned a lot about the land and

- started friendly relations with Native American tribes.

Thomas Jefferson's Confidential Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)