Lewis, Clark and

the Louisiana Purchase

A little background Info…

• America used Spanish owned, New Orleans as a port to trade from

• Spain gives Louisiana to France!

• Jefferson is worried!

– France wants to use Louisiana to grow food for their colonies in the Caribbean

Time to bargain!

• Jefferson buys Louisiana for 15 Million dollars

• The LOUISIANA PURCHASE doubled the size of America!

1. there were woolly mammoths roaming the West. 2. there was a tribe of blue-eyed Indians living in the West who

spoke Welsh, the language of people from Wales, a region on the west coast of the island of Great Britain.

3. there was a river or series of connected rivers, starting at the Mississippi, that crossed the western mountains and reached the Pacific Ocean.

4. the Blue Ridge Mountains were taller than the Rocky Mountains.

5. the West had many erupting volcanoes. 6. unicorns could be found in the West. 7. there were mountains in the West made of undissolved salt. 8. some beavers in the West were seven feet tall. 9. buffaloes were friendly and had slim waists. 10. Peruvian llamas roamed the West.

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