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The Louisiana Purchase By 1800 Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee were added to the original 13 states, and the Northwest Territory was divided into the territories of Ohio and Indiana. Americans began to look beyond the Mississippi to the land the French had named Louisiana.

Thomas Jefferson In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the third President of the United States. The Mississippi River was the most economic route for farmers to get their products to market. The United States purchased Louisiana from France in 1803.

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean.

Zebulon Pike Zebulon Pike explored the southwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase and helped promote trade between New Mexico and the United States.

Louisiana Purchase What? –the land from Canada to Mexico north and south and west to the Rocky Mountains.

Louisiana Purchase Why?-to acquire a port on the Gulf of Mexico

Louisiana Purchase How?-Purchased from France

The War of 1812 The Revolutionary War was the first of two wars that the United States and Britain fought. The second one was the War of 1812.

The War of 1812 As settlers moved farther west, they ran into many angry Native Americans who tried to stop them from taking their lands. Indians were helped by the British in Canada, who sold them guns and encouraged them to fight the Americans.

The War of 1812 Trouble in the western lands pushed the United States into a second war with Britain. Also, the British navy stopped American merchant ships from trading with other European countries. Even taking American sailors off the ships and putting them to work on British navy ships. (This is called impressment)

The War of 1812 In June 1812 James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, asked Congress to declare war on Britain. British had the strongest navy in the world, yet the United States Navy won 2 important battles early in the war. One was on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia and the other on Lake Erie.

Warship Constitution The United States warship the Constitution exchanged cannonball fire with a British ship off the coast of Nova Scotia. Cannonballs could not pierce the hard oak sides of the Constitution. After that battle, the Constitution was nicknamed “Old Ironsides”.

Warship Constitution

The Battle of Lake Erie Became an early turning point in the war. This American victory allowed 4,500 soldiers across Lake Erie into Canada. At the Battle of Thames (TEMZ), the American forces beat the British and their Indian allies. Among the dead, Shawnee Indian leader Tecumseh who had tried to stop Americans from taking Indian land.

The Battle of Lake Erie

The War of 1812 In 1814 the British burned the White House, the Capitol, and many other buildings in Washington D.C. First Lady Dolley Madison rescued items from the White House in the War of 1812.

The War of 1812 Neither side was clearly the winner in the War of 1812. However, Americans were proud that the United States had stood up to Britain. After the war a wave of nationalism, or pride in the country, swept over the land.

Francis Scott Key Lawyer and amateur poet who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner, which has become the national anthem of the United States. On September 13, 1814, during the War of 1812, the British bombed Fort McHenry, near Baltimore. It was a terrible battle, and it lasted most of the day and night. In the early part of September 14, Key saw the U.S. flag still flying. He was so moved by this experience that he began to write on the back of a letter he had in his pocket. He finished the poem, all four verses, a little while later. It was later printed as "Defence of Fort M'Henry."

Fort McHenry Baltimore, MD