Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark

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Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark

• While Jefferson sought to reduce the size of the
  govt., he actually doubled the size of the
  country
• By 1800 1 million people lived between the
  Appalachian Mts. and the Mississippi River
• New Orleans was the major shipping port and trade
  and goods came through there up the Mississippi

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US Map in 1800

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Who controlled the city of New Orleans?

• Up until 1801, the Spanish had controlled the
  city and most of the land west of the Mississippi
  River
• Spain made a treaty w/U.S. (Pinckney Treaty) to
  keep N.O. open to U.S. shipping
• A major crisis develops when Spain gives N.O. and
  Louisiana Territory to French

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The Purchase

• Jefferson was afraid Napoleon Bonaparte had
  intentions of taking control of North Americaso
  he wanted to buy the city of New Orleans.
• Jefferson sent two men, James Monroe and Robert
  Livingston to France to buy New Orleans.they
  were shocked when France offered to sell the
  whole Louisiana territory
• The men accepted and purchased for 15 million

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Louisiana Purchase

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Lewis and Clark

• The U.S. didnt really know what it had bought
  with the LA Purchase, so they decided it must be
  explored
• Jefferson sent two men, Meriwether Lewis and
  William Clark to report on the new region

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Goals for Expedition

• Report on the geography (maps), plants and
  animals of the region
• Make contact with Native Americans west of the
  Mississippi
• See if a water way existed that reached the
  Pacific Ocean

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Lewis and Clark Route

• Red To voyage
• Blue Return