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10.2 The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration 1803-1806

10.2 The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration 1803-1806. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_cir.html. The West in 1800. Hispaniola. 1800-1810: Population in the Ohio Valley grows. Daniel Boone clears the Wilderness Road. 1800: Spain cedes trans-Mississippi/LA to France

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10.2 The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration 1803-1806

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  1. 10.2The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration 1803-1806

  2. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_cir.html

  3. The West in 1800 Hispaniola

  4. 1800-1810: Population in the Ohio Valley grows. Daniel Boone clears the Wilderness Road. 1800: Spain cedes trans-Mississippi/LA to France 1802: US loses right to deposit in New Orleans 1803: Jefferson sends envoys to Napoleon 4/30/1803: Frances sells LA for $15 million Why did Napoleon sell? Jefferson and Louisiana

  5. Avoided war with France and Spain • Vast area of land open for farming for growing population • Western expansion favors Jefferson & Democratic republican Party, gains loyalty of Western US • Federalists decline further • Establishes power of the President to make treaties Louisiana Purchase of 1803

  6. Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Page 321

  7. Sought (but did not find) a Northwest Passage • Want to establish boundaries of the new LA territory • 1804-1806: 2½ year journey of 50 men(Corps of Discovery) • Navigated the Missouri, crossed the Rockies, went down the Columbia River to the Pacific and back Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

  8. Received help from many Native Americans during their journey, especially Sacajawea, a Shoshone woman who served as interpreter and guide • First Americans to cross the North American continent. • Demonstrated the viability of an overland passage to Pacific • Opened the West to settlement Sacagawea interpreted in a bronze sculpture by Eugene Daub located at Clark's Point in Kansas City. Source - NET, Bill Ganzel The Corps of Discovery http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/saca.html

  9. The Missouri Breaks

  10. Decision Point

  11. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html

  12. Left St. Louis in 1806 with party of 12. • Goal was to find the source of the Arkansas and Red Rivers • Attempted to climb Pikes Peak • Crossed Rio Grande • Arrested and detained by Spanish Zebulon Pike

  13. Pike’s Peak

  14. What were the Effects of Exploration between 1804-1807? (page 323)

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