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II. The Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark

II. The Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark. A. The West Develops. By 1801, over one million people, mostly farmers, lived west of the Appalachian Mts. Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain in 1795, guaranteed the right of Americans to ship their goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans

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II. The Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark

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  1. II. The Louisiana Purchase& Lewis & Clark

  2. A. The West Develops • By 1801, over one million people, mostly farmers, lived west of the Appalachian Mts. • Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain in 1795, guaranteed the right of Americans to ship their goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans • This agreement was endangered when Spain gave New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory to France in 1801

  3. B. The Louisiana Purchase • President Jefferson offered to buy New Orleans for $10 million • France’s leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, was concerned that a slave rebellion had not been put down in Haiti and increased tensions with Great Britain • Napoleon offered New Orleans and the entire Louisiana Territory for $15 million • Jefferson gives into “loose interpretation” of the Constitution

  4. C. The Lewis and Clark Expedition • Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to report on geography, plants, animals and other features of the region • Jefferson also wanted them to make contact with Native American tribes • From 1804-1806, the expedition traveled from St. Louis to the Pacific coast of Oregon, and back • In 1805, Zebulon Pike explored the southern part of the Louisiana Territory

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