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The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration

1803-1806

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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

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Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

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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

The Corps of Discovery

Received help from many Native Americans during their journey, especially 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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Left St. Louis in 1806 with party of 12.

Goal was to find the source of the Arkansas and Red Rivers

Attempted to climb Pikes Peak

Crossed Rio Grande Arrested and detained by Spanish

Pike’s Peak

What were the Effects of Exploration between 1804-1807?

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