1. By: Jade Castro, Kyle Becker, and Julia Vidal
Louisiana Purchase
By: Jade Castro, Kyle Becker, and Julia Vidal

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3. How did the Louisiana Purchase affect American National Identity?
Essential Question:
How did the Louisiana Purchase affect American National Identity?

4. Key Concepts Addressed
Key Concept 4.3: U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
I. Struggling to create an independent global presence, U.S. policymakers sought to dominate the North American continent and to promote its foreign trade.
A. Following the Louisiana Purchase, the drive to acquire, survey, and open up new lands and markets led Americans into numerous economic, diplomatic, and military initiatives in the Western Hemisphere and Asia.
B. The U.S. sought dominance over the North American continent through a variety of means, including military actions, judicial decisions, and diplomatic efforts.

5. Key Concepts Addressed
II. Various American groups and individuals initiated, championed, and/or resisted the expansion of territory and/or government powers.
A. With expanding borders came public debates about whether to expand and how to define and use the new territories.
B. Federal government attempts to assert authority over the states brought resistance from state governments in the North and the South at different times.
C. Whites living on the frontier tended to champion expansion efforts, while resistance by American Indians led to a sequence of wars and federal efforts to control American Indian populations.
III. The American acquisition of lands in the West gave rise to a contest over the extension of slavery into the western territories as well as a series of attempts at national compromise.

6. Learning objectives
Students will identify the date at which the Louisiana purchased and who it was purchased from.
Students will know the amount of area the Louisiana purchase encompassed and they will be specific
Students will know how much Louisiana was purchased for.
Students will know the result of the Louisiana purchase? (How big was the US after the purchase?)

7. What is the Louisiana Territory?
The Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. The Louisiana Territory existed from July 4, to June 4, 1812.

8. Louisiana Purchase Background
In the beginning of the 17th century, France explored the Mississippi River valley and established settlements in the region.
By the 18th century France controlled most of present day United States.
During The French and Indian War, France surrendered and gave almost all of their land on North America to the British.
British then gave The Territory of Louisiana to Spain.
In 1796, Spain allied itself with France, leading Britain to use their navy to cut off Spain from America.
In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France.

9. Third Treaty of San ILdefonso
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso was the secret treaty between France and Spain.
Spain returned the Territory of Louisiana back to the French.
The treaty was established in between Louis Alexandre representing France and Don Mariano Luis De Urquijo representing Spain.

10. What is the Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana Territory in 1803.
The United States bought 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France.
President Thomas Jefferson ordered purchase negotiations in fear that the French, led by Napoleon at the time, would establish an empire in North America.

11. Lewis and Clark Expedition
Shortly after the Louisiana Purchase the President, Thomas Jefferson, commissioned an Expedition.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the Continent.
It began near St. Louis, passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast.
This journey lasted from May 1804 to September
The objective of this expedition was to explore and map all of the newly acquired territory.

12. Sacagawea Sacagawea, the daughter of a Shoshone chief.
She was born in 1788 in Lemhi County, Idaho.
At around age 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French- Canadian trapper who made her his wife.
In November 1804, she was invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as a Shoshone interpreter.

13. How did Sacagawea help in the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Sacagawea played a huge role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Sacagawea was married to Charbonneau, who was one of the several men that were interviewed for the expedition by Lewis and Clark.
Charbonneau was hired because Sacagawea spoke Shoshone
She helped Lewis and Clark by translating when they ran into other tribes
In April 1804, one of the boats were capsized and Sacagawea rescued several important items including records and journals Lewis and Clark kept. For this reason, The Sacagawea River was named after her later that May.

14. How did The Louisiana Purchase affect America?
The Louisiana Purchase stretched across the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the Mississippi River.
It essentially double the size of the United States at the time and it was the best real estate purchase ever made.
The purchase gave United States citizens room to expand westward.

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