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Color & Label the following:
Mississippi River (trace in dark BLUE)
Red River (trace in RED)
New Orleans (put a GREEN dot)
Atlantic Ocean(LIGHT BLUE)
Pacific Ocean(LIGHT BLUE)
Gulf of Mexico (DARK BLUE)
Great Lakes (DARK BLUE)
U.S. Territory (GREEN)
Louisiana Territory (YELLOW)
Spanish Territory (ORANGE)
Oregon Country (PINK)
British Territory (PURPLE)
Label:
Arkansas River Missouri River
Ohio River Ouachita River
Draw and Label: Shade the mountains BROWN
Rocky Mountains Appalachian Mountains
- How did Jefferson’s ideas about government and domestic policy help define America during the early 1800s?
Jefferson’s Political Philosophy
America should remain an agrarian (farming) society. As simple farmers we will share common experience, values and beliefs.
Abundant land will prevent the urbanization of America. We do not need big cities like Europe has.
Reduce the number of federal employees.
Reduce the size of the military.
2. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses
2. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses
Challenge: Napoleonic Wars
Fighting continues between France and Britain
Both sides created blockade, wanting to end trade between the U.S. and their enemy
France and Britain continued seizing American ships
Britain impressed American sailors into the British navy
America’s Response: Embargo Act (1807)
Ended all exports from the United States to foreign nations
Passed to pressure Britain and France to recognize American neutrality
Problem: It hurt the U.S. economy more than France and Britain
Exports dropped by 80% by 1808
1807: Exports worth $108 million
1808: Exports worth $22 million
Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves of 1807
Law that stated no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States
3. What were the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
3. What were the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
Reasons U.S. wanted to buy New Orleans:
As American settlers moved West, control of the Mississippi River became more important to the United States.
Settlers depended on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to move products east.
Jefferson worried about foreign control of New Orleans and Louisiana.
Americans depended on the river, which could be disrupted if a foreign power shut down access to New Orleans, also known as the right of deposit
Jefferson sent ambassadors Robert Livingston and James Monroe to France to try to buy New Orleans.
Reasons France sold Louisiana
The French regained control of Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso
The French offered to sell ALL of Louisiana.
Needed money to fund his war with Britain (Napoleonic Wars)
After the Haitian slave revolt, he no longer needed Louisiana (provided food for sugar plantations in Haiti)
St. Domingue: French colony in present-day Haiti
Revolt led by Toussaint L’Overture
Napoleon sent over 40,000 soldiers to fight rebels
French soldiers decimated by yellow fever, forced troops to withdraw
Too difficult to maintain the North American colony
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was approved by the Senate on October 20, 1803, and almost doubled the size of the United States
Price was $15 million
Problems for Jefferson:
Was the purchase constitutional?
Federalists argue NO; Democratic-Republicans argue YESNothing in the Constitution about land acquisitions
Jefferson himself said he didn’t have the authority, but knew it was important - so he went through with it!
Lasting impact on Federal Power
Purchase seen as beginning of expansion of federal power
Constitution interpreted more loosely by future governments
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Led By: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Purpose: to explore the Louisiana territory, to learn about the plants and animals in the West, and to find a water route to the
Pacific Ocean.
CHALLENGES
The Rocky Mountains (Continental Divide) proved to be a huge obstacle in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Native Americans: Lewis used interpreters to talk to leaders of each of the tribes they met; told them the United States now owned the land on which Native Americans lived.
Relied on the goodwill of the people they met.
Given food by Shoshone, Nez Percé, and others.
Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman who served as a guide and interpreter.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Lewis and Clark's team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains.
They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they'd never seen before.
They also brought back stories that made other Americans dream about heading west
Dunbar-Hunter Expedition
Led By: William Dunbar and George Hunter
Purpose: to explore the lower portion of the Louisiana purchase
Dunbar and Hunter both made observations about the plant and wildlife that they encountered, as well as the mineral resources
Abundant natural resources would be necessary to the success of settlers in the new territory
Proved that Americans and Native Americans could get along together
Red River Expedition
Led By: Thomas Freeman and Dr. Peter Custis
Purpose:
Explore the Red River to find a westward route
Survey the land (document plants and wildlife)
Try to build relationships with the Native Americans
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