1. What was the importance of the purchase and exploration of the Louisiana Purchase What was the importance of the purchase and exploration of the Louisiana Purchase?

2.  By 1800 more than one million settlers lived between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi  Most settler were farmers and relied on Mississippi to ship their crops to the port at New Orleans

4.  In 1795 U.S. negotiated the Pinckney Treaty Guaranteed Americans’ rights to ship goods down the Mississippi and store goods in New Orleans

5.  In 1801, Spain secretly gave New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory to France Jefferson worried about how Napoleon Bonaparte would rule the area

6.  1802 the Governor of New Orleans stopped allowing Americans to ship their goods through New Orleans  Americans wanted to go to war  Jefferson decided to send James Monroe to Paris to buy New Orleans from the French

7.  Meanwhile in Haiti, a revolution led by Toussaint L’Ouverture had driven the French out  Without Haiti, the French would not be able to defend Louisiana during a war  In France, another war between France and Britain was about to begin and the French needed money to fund it

9.  France offered to sell ALL OF THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY for $15 million (about 4 cents an acre)  Because it would take months to get Jefferson’s advice, Monroe accepted the offer  This agreement would almost double the size of the country and give the U.S. control of the Mississippi

11.  The Constitution nowhere states that the President has the power to buy land from a foreign country

12.  Jefferson decided he could purchase the land because the Constitution said the president could make treaties  The Senate approved the treaty and Congress voted to pay for the land

13. CostsBenefits ?

16. Goals Was Goal Accomplished?

17. Corps MembersRole Meriwether Lewis William Clark Toussaint Charbonneau Sacajawea York http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_corp.html

19.  Follow the online directions and stay together as a team.  Make decisions of where you want to go TOGETHER and do not work ahead of one another!  If you make it to the end, tell Mrs. Hoachlander. http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html

20. Please color and label the following: -The United States (As of 1804) - Spanish Territory -The Louisiana Purchase -Oregon Country Please trace the path of: -Lewis and Clark Please trace and label the following rivers: -Missouri -Columbia