Download Notes - Louisiana Purchase

• President Thomas Jefferson made the
Louisiana Purchase.
– Jefferson went against his own principle of strictly
interpreting the Constitution to buy the Louisiana
Territory.
• He bought the land from Napoleon Bonaparte
of France
– Bonaparte sold the land to Jefferson for 15 million
– The Louisiana Territory doubled the size of the
United States.
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition was also called
the Corps of Discovery
– The expedition was sent out into the Louisiana
Territory by President Jefferson to:
• Find a water route to the Pacific Ocean by following the
Missouri River to its source.
• Establish trade relationships with Native Americans.
• Exert control over the Native Americans
• Gain other information (flora and Fauna) the land that
had been acquired.
• Native Americans greatly aided the Corps of
Discovery
• Sacajawea helped in the following ways:
– finding edible foods (plants and funguses hunting
and fishing)
– Translated
– Acquired horses and other supplies need by the
expedition.
– Helped keep the peace.