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The West in 1800
- Kentucky & Tennessee will declare statehood in 1800, while
Ohio will declare in 1803
- the Mississippi River was our
western border, but France &
Spain were negotiating for
control of the Louisiana
Territory in 1800
- control for the port of New
Orleans almost caused war!

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Napoleon and New Orleans
- after losing the French & Indian War, France turned over the
Louisiana Territory to Spain
- the fight for New Orleans
almost caused a war between
the United States & Spain
- in 1800, Spain sent the
Louisiana Territory back to
France in a secret treaty

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- to avoid war, Jefferson asked Napoleon Bonaparte if he
would be willing to sell New Orleans
- Jefferson received a surprising response: did the U.S. want
to purchase the entire Louisiana Territory?

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Louisiana Purchase
- Napoleon turned the Louisiana Territory over for a couple
reasons:
1. America was determined to keep the New Orleans port open
2. the Haitian revolt in Hispaniola by Toussaint LOuverture
weakened Napoleons desire for a colony in America
3. France needed the money to fund their war with England
- Jefferson obtained the Louisiana Purchase for $15,000,000
on April 30, 1803, doubling the size of the United States!!!

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Lewis and Clark Explore
- after the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson chose Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark to conduct an expedition to explore
the new territory
- the 40 man expedition came to be known
as the Lewis and Clark expedition or the
Corps of Discovery
- Clarks slave, York, became very popular
with the Native-Americans for his hunting
skills

York

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Up the Missouri River
- Jefferson instructed the expedition to record the landscape,
plants, animals, and establish good relations with Natives
- they left in May of 1804 and by
October had reached the
Mandan Indian villages in North
Dakota
- they spent the Winter with the
Mandan people and French fur
trappers

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- in the Spring of 1805, the expedition left the village with a
French trapper, his wife Sacagawea, and their baby
- Sacagawea was a Shoshone
woman with great geographical
knowledge & language skill
- she was born in Idaho, but was
taken prisoner by the Mandan tribe
in a battle with the Shoshone in 1800
and relocated to North Dakota

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On to the Pacific Ocean
- the expedition had to walk around the 10-mile long Great
Falls in Montana
- once completed, they
made their way onto
Shoshone lands in Idaho
- in November of 1805, the
expedition finally reached
the Pacific Ocean!

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Pikes Expedition
- with Lewis & Clark exploring the northern
territory of the Louisiana Territory, Jefferson
asked Zebulon Pike to explore the southern
portion along the Arkansas and Red Rivers
- Pike traveled all the way to the Rockies
(Pikes Peak in Colorado is named after him)
- the expedition eventually traveled to the
Rio Grande River and was arrested by
Spanish troops & released in 1807

Zebulon Pike

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