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

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

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

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  1. 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?

  2. In 1801, Toussaint L'Ouverture led black slaves in a revolt in Haiti against the French, killing 35,000 French soldiers. The Haitian Revolution • Haiti became an independent nation in 1804. 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)

  3. 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.

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

  5. Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis and William Clarkwere sent to find an all waterroute across the continent. • The party consisted of 33 people and Lewis’ dog. (left) Meriwether Lewis and (right) William Clark

  6. Spanish Territories Louisiana bought by the U.S. from France in 1803 United States Expedition of Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)

  7. 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.

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

  9. 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

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

  11. 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

  12. 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 output

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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. The Louisiana Purchase in a Nutshell (1:11) Lewis and Clark: Animated Expedition (8:50) – This is a fantastic, and historically accurate, student creation!

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

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