November 9, 1803 The National Gazette
In results of the country’s recent land purchase, Lewis and Clark go on daring journey
Diary Entry from Mr. Lewis:
“W
e trudged through the high
grass, and the big beautiful wide trunk
trees that I have never seen before,
hovering over our heads. I breathe in
the clean, crisp, fresh air of this unexplored land. My best friend William
Clark was trailing behind me. He came
up to where I was, and rested on a
fallen tree trunk. He caught his breath
and asked me if we could sleep in the
little clearing for the night. I agreed
and we started to set up camp. The
camp was near a big rushing rapids
river. Just then, a breed of fish that
I’ve never seen before leapt out over
the falls! Seaman, my Newfoundland
dog, was barking wildly at them. This
was spooking our horses, but luckily before they could break loose, York
took control of them. Later, Sacagawea
said that the fish were called salmon,
and that meant we were getting much
closer to the Pacific Ocean. I was delighted to hear this. President Thomas
Jefferson will also be happy to hear
this. After he bought the land from
the French, in the Louisiana Purchase,
he sent us on this journey in the first
place. This really is the adventure of a
new time!” - Meriwether Lewis 1804
Mr. Meriwether Lewis (left), and Mr. William Clark. (right)
By Ace Reporter, Nicolette Balch
T
he Louisiana Purchase was bought by
Thomas Jefferson in 1803, a year later he
sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land he
had bought for our new country.
T
he Louisiana Purchase is the major cause
of the Lewi The Louisiana Purchase is the
acquisition by the United States more than
530,000,000 acres of territory from France in
1803, at the cost of about 3 cents per acre.
The total ended up to be $15 million.
T
he French territory of Louisiana included
far more land than just the current U.S. state
of Louisiana. The lands purchased contained
parts or all of present-day Arkansas, Mis
souri, Iowa, Minnesota west of the Mississippi
River, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
New Mexico, northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas,
the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains, the portions of
southern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan and
southern Alberta that drain into the Missouri River,
and Louisiana on both sides of the Mississippi
River including the city of New Orleans. The land
includes in the purchase is 22.3% of the territory
of the future United States. This purchase, is very
important moment in the presidency of Thomas
Jefferson.
T
he election of Thomas Jefferson, because without Jefferson becoming president, the part of the
country bought in the L.P. would still probably
be owned by the French, that part would still be
speaking French, and also without Jefferson, the
Lewis and Clark exploration wouldn’t happen in
the future.
A
n event I predict that will happen because of
the L.P. and Lewis&Clark is the “Trail of Tears”,
because the future state of Oklahoma was bought
in the L.P. and Lewis&Clark explored its territory.
Oklahoma was where most of the Indians are going to be sent to. If any Indians living on the East
Coast right now, might want to leave to Oklahoma
now while you have the chance. “The Trail” is not
pretty, believe me!
almost sixteen states for our
country.
L
ewis&Clark: This event is newsworthy because, Only a handful
of people are daring to go on a
several-year-long journey, across
land no one, has ever witnessed.
It’s very intriguing to now about.
This event will change history
because everything that ever happens on the west coast and a lot
of Middle America won’t happen.
This change is very positive in my
opinion, because we get a lot of
new land and we can start settling
in new places, also we can find
out what kind of new things are
out there. Everyone should now
about this event. Why, because
you could start a new life, and
settle somewhere else and even
somewhere more beautiful then
the place you are living in now.
A
nother event is the Attack on the Alamo and
Mexican and American War. This is so because
some of Texas was bought in the L.P. therefore, if
Jefferson hadn’t bought the land, and L&C didn’t
explore it, we still might have not even started
settling in Northern Texas, and other parts of Texas. Therefore, both of these wars might happen.
The wars will be caused by Mexico not wanting us
to settle on their land.
L
ouisiana Purchase: This event is newsworthy
because, The Louisiana Purchase bought a HUGE
portion of new land for our country. In counting
Thomas Jefferson and the treaty
signing of the Louisiana Purchase.
www.natinalgeographic.com/lewisand
clark
www.lewisandclark.org
www.gatewayno.com/history/LaPurchase
www.en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Louisiana_
Purchase
lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab4.
htm
Many thanks to these sites for this
newspaper’s information!
Cartoon shows a mock way of
President Jefferson buying the
land from the Louisiana Purchas,
from the French.
It shows him as if he was buying it
at a store.
The National Gazette