10.2

The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration

1803-1806

Federalists Continue to Lose Power 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

Jefferson and Louisiana

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?

Louisiana Purchase of 1803

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

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

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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

The Missouri Breaks

Decision Point

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