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10.2 The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration 1803-1806. Hamilton attacks Adams, splitting Federalist Party Adams/Federalists lose election of 1804 Hamilton seeks to prevent Burr from becoming Gov. of New York in 1804 7/11/1804 Hamilton fights Aaron Burr in a duel, and is killed.
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Hamilton attacks Adams, splitting Federalist Party • Adams/Federalists lose election of 1804 • Hamilton seeks to prevent Burr from becoming Gov. of New York in 1804 • 7/11/1804 Hamilton fights Aaron Burr in a duel, and is killed. • Burr kills Federalist leadership, and his own career • Federalists fade away Federalists Continue to Lose Power
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
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
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 • Received help from many Native Americans during their journey, esp.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 Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
Seeking a Northwest Passage and boundaries of new LA territory • 1804-1806: 2 and ½ year journey, 50 men in Corps of Discovery • Navigated the Missouri, crossed the Rockies, went down the Columbia River to the Pacific and back • Received help from many Native Americans during their journey, esp. 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 Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
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 • Received help from many Native Americans during their journey, esp.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 Meriwether Lewis & William Clark