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1804- heading west
• The expedition headed west up the Missouri
River in May 1804.
• Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman acted as a
guide. Other Native Americans led through
a path in the Rocky Mountains.
• The explorers eventually traced the
Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis
and Clark provided Flora and Fauna about
Louisiana and gave U.S. a claim to Oregon
Territory.
• President Thomas
Jefferson faced an
important decision
during the summer of
1803. Napoleon
offered to sell the
territory of Louisiana
to the U.S. for $15
million. The purchase
would double the area
of the U.S.
•What are the
consequences of
United States
Expansionism?
Negotiations
• Jefferson originally
offered $2 million to buy
only the region around
the mouth of the
Mississippi River, which
included the port city of
New Orleans. He wanted
to protect farmers of the
Ohio River Valley who
depended on access to
New Orleans.
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Jefferson sent James
Monroe who along
with Robert
Livingston was to
negotiate with
Napoleon.
• Authorized to spend as
much as $10 million
for New Orleans
• Shocked when
Napoleon offered all
for $15 million.
Consequences
United States nearly doubled its land mass
and became one of the world’s largest
countries.
 Eventually all or parts of 13 states of the
U.S. were formed from the Louisiana
Territory.
 The territory included vast tracts of fertile
soil and other natural resources.
 The Louisiana Purchase turned out to be a
richer prize than anyone had imagined.
Fauna
Flora
• Jefferson enlisted
Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark to
explore and map out
the territory which had
just been purchased
from Napoleon.
• This Corps of
Discovery would
forever change the
U.S.
Summary
• The Louisiana Purchase has been called the
greatest real estate deal in history. For $15
million, about 4 cents per acre, the U.S. got
828,000 square miles of land west of the
Mississippi River. Thirteen states were
carved from the Louisiana Territory. The
Purchase nearly doubled the size of the
U.S., making it one of the largest nations in
the world
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Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
• Manifest Destiny was the idea that the U.S.
was meant to spread to the Pacific.
• The Louisiana Purchase gave momentum to
this idea.
• The Lewis and Clark expedition provided a
wealth of new information for those eager
to go west.
• Native American life would never be the
same.
Horace
Greeley
•
How did white settlers affect
American Indians?
"The conduct of the United States Americans [sic] toward the natives was
inspired by the most chaste affection for legal formalities . . . .It is impossible
to destroy men with more respect to the laws of humanity." Alex de
Tocqueville
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Plight of Native Americans
• American
Expansionism=Manifest
Destiny?
• Results: broken treaties,
deprivation of hunting grounds
(Buffalo) (Tatanka) eventually
onto reservations
• Predict reactions of American
Natives towards the invading
“white man”?
Native Reactions
• Attacking
wagon trains,
stagecoaches,
and sometimes
whole towns
and areas that
they deemed as
their own land
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What are Plains?
• Characteristics
Farming the Plains
• How did the US acquire the Plains?
• From who did we acquire the Plains?
• What are some obstacles facing Plains
settlers?
“Great American Desert” or
Paradise??
The Plains (sod house)
Little House on the Prairie
• Railroads
• Homestead Act (up to
160Acres/$10) easy
land…just show
something
• new farming methods
(dry farming=$$)
• Inventions: steel
plow, seed drills,
mech. Reapers and
threshing machines
Agricultural Inventions
•
Threshing machines, designed for
rapidly removing the husks from
grain, were such an advance that
soon many farms had them.
Unfortunately, farm laborers did not
have the knowledge of the hazards of
the machines and did not always
adopt the necessary vigilance. It
should also be remembered that, in
summer, the laborers were served
beer, the only safe cool drink
available, and each man would
consume around six pints in a day in
the hot weather. Some farms and
mills even had their own brewery!
YES
Agricultural Inventions
• In 1837, on his own, John
Deere designed the first cast
steel plow that greatly assisted
the Great Plains farmers. The
large plows made for cutting
the tough prairie ground were
called "grasshopper plows."
The plow was made of
wrought iron and had a steel
share that could cut through
sticky soil without clogging.
By 1855, John Deere's factory
was selling over 10,000 steel
plows a year.
Agricultural Inventions
• Technological
advances = increase
crop production which
results in ?????
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Agriculture Revolution
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Crop Production
Food on the Table
Caloric Intake
Healthier Parents (Women ***)
Healthier Babies
^ Decreases IMR
Commercial Farming
• Large farms for profit, different from family
homestead (similar to today’s farms) Let’s
make some money!
• Problems: supply vs. demand+ too much
wheat on the world market causes prices to
_____________________________???
^ Population
Mining
• Settlement of mountain states in west: think
Manifest Destiny
• News of a strike would cause of BOOM and
stampede of prospectors too a region- seeking
wealth and riches
• Comstock Lode-pure silver found• BOOM town-towns go from little to a lot
overnight (Virginia City)
• Pikes Peak or Bust/Gold in Black Hills (Indians?)
Ranching and Cattle Drives
• Mexicans introduced in what is later SW USA
• Cattle ranches on Great American Desert? Little water and
woosy cattle from the east couldn’t survive
• Texas Longhorn- 5 million in Texas by 1865
• Open Range-vast amts of land owned by Uncle Sam
• Civil War brought RailRoads further and further West
resulting in……….
• Cattle drives and Trails- Chisholm Trail to towns like
Abilene, Dodge City and Sedalia: people in East were
flippin’ hungry
• Long Drive- “Happy Trails, to you, until……………..
“until RANGE WARS and barbed wire (1000’s of acres)
IAN
IAN Important Events Leading to Settling of Great Plains
Events leading to the Settlement
Event #1
choo-choo
Event #2
$10
Event #3
better mouse traps
Event #4
Banana
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