8.3 Beyond the Mississippi: Louisiana Purchase and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

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City of New Orleans

Sacagawea

She became an essential guide and American legend She first was a cook for the team but then was able to find food and translate with other tribes

Mandans

Native tribes that see true americans (they had already traded with french) for the first time Americans traded godos and celbrated feasts

Napolean BOnaparte

Negotiated a secret treaty with spain to return New Orleans and the entire Louisiana Territory to France

Who controls land west of the MI

Spain ever since the French ceded it during the French and Indian War

What does Jefferson want to know

1) BEfore the Louisiana purchase is accomplished, Jefferson wants to supprot and scientific expedition to study the lands of the American continent

OVerall what did New Orleans have at the time of purchase

1) Churches 2) Dance halls 3) Theater 4) Newspaper 5) Police force 6) 1/3 of africans are free

The purchase details

1) Congress acted quikly to apporve it 2) Solved problem of NEw Orleans and secured control of the MI river 3) Doubled our landmass

Geography's influence on american's

1) Farmers west of ALlegenies found it difficult to ship goods over mountains or transport to New Orleans 2) Jefferson worries about movement of frontier farmers to create independent nations

Jefferson reacts

1) France is the most powersul nation in Europe and them controling american commerce is not to be tolerated 2) Calls NEw Orleans the one spot that will always be our enemy

Why did Americans suffer from this Spanish practice

1) Half of all goods exported from US go down the MI river

Napolean's issues

1) He needs money 2) Haitian rebellion was a huge success 3) Yellow Fever 4) This port that served to supply haiti woudl nto be important if haiti was not under French control

Jefferson's response

1) Jefferson thrilled 2) Strict reading of teh constitution did nto authorize the federal government to make a huge purchase of aland 3) However Jefferson did it since it had obvious political benefits

What were Lewis and Clark's orders

1) Learn as much as possible about the new land 2) Make treaties with many inhabitants 3) Thus they set off to explore!!!!

Rights of african women

1) Maintain gardens 2) Buy and sell goods 3) Be involved in intemate relations with white men

Results of the new expedition

1) Many AMericans got to profit from teh fur trade 2) Native tribes faded due to disease, war, loss of land, and loss of their way of life

Some Federalist opinion on the Louisiana purchase

1) Opposition 2) The influence of New England, the last Federalist region, would be diminished in the larger nation 3) But other federalists and most americans like the purchase

New Orleans slavery

1) Slaves and free blacks could gather at Congo square on Sundays to dance, play drums and sing in their own language under the eye of whites

How is new orleans different from the rest of America

1) Spoke French and Spanish 2) Catholic (we are protestant) 3) Cosmopolitan mix of attitude about race and sexuality

The route of the Corps of Discovery up to the first winter

1) Travel up Missouri river 2) Reach US Canada border near north dakota 3) Stay here for te winter near a Mandan Indian village

What does Jefferson consider to deal with New ORleans

1) Why not just buy the city from France 2) Dispatched James Manroe and Robert LIvingston to tryt o purcahse New Orleans for $6 million 3) IF not they were to make an alliance with Great Britian against France

Did French and british explorers know this land

1) Yes 2) French explorers had already explored it 3) British traders also knew it as well as natives

Other expeditions Jefferson launched

1) Zebulon PIke led one exploring Mississippi, Arkansas, and Colorado 2) Thomas freeman led an expedition and track the red river valley in the south of teh new territory

Slaver in Spanish and French colonies

1) this varies widely 2) HArsh slavery on French haiti and Spanish cuba 3) But slave in certain cities could maintain families, enjoy holidays, earn money to buy goods, and somethiems were freed

Flatboats

American slavse would loads these with up to 100 tons of grain to be moved down the MI river

Napolean's reponse to Manroe and Livingston's offer

HE offers to sell the whole middle third of the present day US for $15 million

Why does Jefferson support a Scientific expedition

He wants a report of Spanisha nd French military power in the region

Nez Perce indians

In idaho they found these natives Largest tribe in teh rockies

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Spian gets weaker

JEfferson says that their control of the MI river and NEw Orleans is not going to have much of an impact

Kaintucks

Kuntuckians French speaking men and women refered to American citizens as these no matter where hyouwere from Even American slaves are colled this

Twisted hair

LEader of the Nez Perce indians who drew a map of river system leading to teh columbia river and the pacific coast Taught amerians how to make dugout canoes out of pine Food also saved the lives of the explorers

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Louisiana Purchase

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Corp of Discovery

The name given to the expedition left by Lewis and Clark from 1804 t0 1806 that explored the Louisiana purchse, and the Oregon territory

Moving into the ORegan conutry

They did this when they tried to cross teh rocky mountains Expected the mountains to e like teh appalacians but they are obviously much bigger

Detrimental spniah practice

They restricted non SPnanish vessels from sailing on teh MI and controled customs duties on all goods moving though New Orleans despite the Pinckney Treaty

racial mixing

This became common in New Orleans Many face discrimination Allowed some black women to have social mobility in Spanish and French colonies by marrying white men

Fort Clatsop

This fort was built in Oregon when the reached teh apcific route using Twisted hair's map Wintered here until March 1806

Toussaint Charbonneau

This french trapper and his Shoshone partner Sacagawea were critical to the success of the Corp of Discovery He is paid $500 at the end

St. Louis

This is where the team of people onteh corp of discover prepared for the trip (this was a Spanish french trading post)