The Louisiana Purchase

http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/louisianapurchase.html

I. The Purchase

http://totalfratmove.com/tfms-in-history-the-louisiana-purchase/comment-page-2/

A. The United States in 1803

1. New states in the west depended on the Mississippi River for trade

2. The Mississippi was controlled by New Orleans – owned by Spain

http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/108lewisclark/108locate1.htm

Spain got tired of trying to keep out Americans, so they sold Louisiana and New Orleans to the French

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$http://www.waterplanet.ws/lewisandclark/

B. How Europe was involved

1. Napoleon wanted to rebuild France’s empire in North America

2. He started by trying to take Haiti

Why?http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/images/0712caribbean_haiti.jpg

3. Napoleon hope to use Haiti as a supply base

4. He was defeated in Haiti by former slave Toussaint L’ Ouverture

5. His dreams of Colonies in the Americas fell apart

http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm

C. How the US Gained Louisiana

1. Jefferson sent Livingston and Monroe to France to try and buy New Orleans

2. Talleyrand was given orders by Napoleon to sell all of Louisiana for $15 million

http://history.howstuffworks.com/revolutionary-war/louisiana-purchase1.htm

II. Exploration

http://www.pershingms.org/MTT/Louisiana%20Purchase.htm

A. Lewis and Clark

1. To lead the mission Jefferson selected his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis

2. Lewis picked William Clark to co-lead

3. Goalsa. Find a water route to the

Pacificb. Report back on their

findings (Natives, plants, animals, etc…)

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/lewis_clark/lewis_clark.html

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/

assessment/2002/08/lewis_and_clark.html

B. Native Americans

1. Were informed by Lewis and Clark that the US now owned their land

2. Some traded with and helped the Expedition (Nez Perce & Shoshone) some attacked (Teton Sioux)

http://www.native-americans-online.com/native-american-ghost-dance.html

C. Sacagawea

1. Member of the Shoshone Tribe

2. Married to a French Fur Trapper – Charbonneau

3. Reasons she wenta. Show that the mission

was peacefulb. Translatec. Get them horses

http://www.rappart.com/portfolio/0/131/9011/

D. Pike’s Exploration

1. Goal was to find the Source of the Red River

2. Discovered Pike’s Peak3. Was arrested by the

Spanish by the Rio Grande

4. Returned home a year later

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/uslocal/west/history/pike.htm