Dealings with France 1800, France gets _________ back from Spain. 1803, Jefferson sends Robert ______ and James _______ to France to try to buy the city of ____ ________(for up to 10 million $) They met with the French Foreign minister ___________. _________ was at war and needed money so they offered all of Louisiana for _________, about $300 million today

Jefferson’s Question Buying Louisiana troubled TJ Did the __________ give the president power to buy land? Doing what he thought was _____ for the country, he agreed to the purchase. (elastic clause) On ________, 1803 the senate agreed to the treaty. With this purchase the size of the U.S. ________.

The Land The land stretched from the _______ to the _______ Mtns. And from New Orleans to the _________ border. The exact boundaries were not clearly defined. Jefferson said proudly that it expanded “The _______ of _________” With all this new land the U.S. needed to ________ it.

Jefferson’s Reasons for the Expedition To _____ out the land To look for the “_________ _______” (the water route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. To learn more about the ________, _________ and ________ on the new land.

Corp of Discovery In 1803, Congress grants Jefferson permission to send an expedition into the new land. They allotted $_______ to send a small army unit. Jefferson chooses ___________ Lewis (his personal secretary and army officer) to lead the expedition. Lewis asks his friend _______ Clark to co-lead the expedition with him. They called their group the “_____ of ________”

Jefferson’s Orders "... the object of your mission is to explore the ___________ river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the ______ Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of __________..."

Corps of Discovery Before the journey, Lewis studied _________ under Dr. Benjamin ______, zoology, and _________. Clark studied ______________ (map making) They recruited ___ men to go on the journey with them. So the corps totaled 31. This included Clark’s slave ______. They bought supplies for the trip and gifts for Native Americans They were gone from May _____ to Sept 23, _______ Lewis also took his ______________ Dog

Corps of Discovery They had a ___ keel boat built. It never made it past N. Dakota. In 1805 it returned to ____________ carrying specimens and reports

Corps of Discovery Captains _____________________ _________________ 4_____________ _______________ Patrick Gass John Ordway Nathaniel Pryor Patrick Gass John Ordway Nathaniel Pryor __ privates Non-Military Members Toussaint _____________ ___________ Jean Baptiste – ________ Toussaint Jean Baptiste – Baptiste Deschamps Pierre Dorion George Drouillard _______- Clark’s slaveBaptiste Deschamps Pierre Dorion George Drouillard Non-Human Members Lewis’ __________

Exploration Timeline 1804 May ____, 1804 Left St. Louis July 4, 1804 near Atchison, KS 1st 4 th of July celebration West of the Miss R. Aug 3, 1804 first meeting NA near ________ Aug 20, 1804 ___ ______dies near Sioux city IA Sept 7, 1804 Encounter with the _______ dogs Sept 25, 1804 confrontation with Black Buffalo and the ______ Sioux

Timeline 1804 Oct 24, 1804 come to _______ Hidatsa villages near Bismarck, ND. Build Ft. Mandan across the river Nov 4, 1804 hire Charbonneau as their interpreter, his wife __________ or “Bird Woman” will come along to help get horses from the __________ Dec 24,1804 Ft Completed, Mandan's assist during brutally cold winter

Timeline 1805 Feb 11, 1805 Sacagawea gives birth to ____ __________ April 7, 1805 Keel boat returns to St. Louis with maps, reports, artifacts, scientific specimens. ____ members head West in smaller canoes April 29, 1805 encounter _______ ______, previously unknown to science June 3, 1805 reach the fork in _________ River, choose the ______ fork June 13, 1805 Reach the _______ Falls on the Missouri

Timeline 1805 June 13, 1805 Reach the Great Falls on the Missouri, have to ___________ (carry canoes) 18 miles, taking over __ month Late July, reach 3 forks of Missouri, name them The Gallatin, _________ and Jefferson Aug 8, 1805 Sacagawea recognizes ________ Head Rock Aug 12, 1805 Lewis crosses _________ pass, realizes there is ____ “Northwest passage”

Timeline 1805 Aug 15-17, 1805 ____ horses from the Shoshone, The chief Cameahwait, is Sacagawea’s ______, hire “___ _____” to lead them across the ___________ Mtns. Sept 11 head into the Mtns, nearly ______ name a stream hungry creek. Sept 22, 1805 stumble out of the mtns encounter the ____ _______(pierced nose people)

Timeline 1805 Oct 15, 1805 reach the _________ R. Nov 7, 1805 Clark thinks they have reached the ________, Writes in his journal, “Ocian in view! O! the joy” Nov 15, 1805 officially reach the _________ O. Nov 24, 1805 Take vote where to establish winter quarters. ______ time in American Hist that a _______ and an African American were given a _____. Dec 8, 1805 build Ft. __________

Timeline 1806 Mar 23, 1806 begin journey _______ May-June ______ with the Nez Perce waiting for the snow to melt July 3, 1806 break into __ groups July Lewis’s group encounters the _________, they tried to steal guns, two Blackfeet are killed July 25, Clark carves his name in _________ __________ Aug 14, reach ________ Villages, say goodbye to Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste

Timeline 1806 Early Sept, traveling ___ miles a day, they stop at Sgt. Floyd’s grave Sept 23, 1806 after ___ years and ___ months, Lewis and Clark reach St. Louis Fall 1806, the captains meet with _________ in D.C. Lewis becomes governor of the _________ Territory. Clark becomes Chief Indian Agent. _____ asks for his freedom In 1809, _______ kills himself

Results of the Journey Lewis and Clark “Discover” ____ new plants and _____ new animals. Extensive __________ of the Western lands Found out there was ___ Northwest passage Learned __________ from native peoples ___________ people to move West Successful ___________ mission Beginning of the ________ for native cultures West of the Mississippi R. Tribes would be moved off of their homeland and onto ________________ The huge herds of buffalo would be nearly _________ by the 1880’s