Jefferson’s Presidency: Topic 5 Lesson 4 (Part II)
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (Page 294)
Name three challenges the United States had to overcome in its early years.
1.____________________________________________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________________________________________
3.____________________________________________________________________________________
Geography Shapes Domestic and Foreign Policy. (Page 295)
4. About how many people lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River in 1800? _________
5. How did farmers get their wheat and corn to the markets in the East? ______________________________
6. What country controlled New Orleans in 1800? ________________________________________________
7. What was said about trade in regard to Spain in the Pinckney Treat? ________________________________
8. Why did Jefferson worry about Spain giving Louisiana to Napoleon Bonaparte? _________________________
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9. Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture? __________________________________________________________
Negotiations for Louisiana (Page 295)
10. Who did Jefferson send to France to purchase New Orleans and West Florida?
A.____________________________________
B.____________________________________
11. Who was the French foreign minister who the American diplomats negotiated with?
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12. Why did Napoleon need money from the Americans? ___________________________________________
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13. How much money did Livingston and Monroe offer to Talleyrand? __________________________________
14. How much did they finally pay for Louisiana? _________________________________________________
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
15. Even though Jefferson was pleased with the transaction, why was he apprehensive about the purchase? _____
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16. Did the Federalists agree with the purchase? ________________________________________________
17. What did the purchase do to the size of the United States?______________________________________
18. What was the new western border of the United States? _______________________________________
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Jefferson’s Presidency: Topic 5 Lesson 4 (Part II)
The Louisiana Purchase
Exploring the Louisiana Territory. (Page 297)
19. Who did Jefferson choose as the leader of an expedition to explore the new lands? ____________________
20. Define expedition: ____________________________________________________________________
21. Who else was chosen to go on the expedition? ________________________________________________
22. Jefferson asked the men to do three different things on their expedition.
a. ______________________________________________________________________________
b._______________________________________________________________________________
c._______________________________________________________________________________
23. What did Jefferson want Lewis and Clark to tell the Native Americans? ____________________________
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The Expedition Begins.
24. What skills did the young men have to have to be chosen to go on the expedition? ______________________
25. What was the name given to the men going on the expedition? ____________________________________
Lewis and Clark Cross the Plains. (Page 298)
26. What are 4 things the Corps saw on the grassy plains? _________________________________________
27. Which native tribe the Lewis and Clark stay with during their first winter? __________________________
28. Who was chosen to help accompany the expedition as a translator? ________________________________
Exploring the Rocky Mountains. (Page 299)
29. Define continental divide: ______________________________________________________________
30. On the eastern side of the continental divide, rivers flow to the __________________________________.
31. On the western side of the continental divide, rivers flow to the __________________________________.
32. What Native American group gave Lewis and Clark horses and explained the best route through the Rockies?
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Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific.
33. What date did William Clark write in his journal that he saw the Pacific Ocean? _______________________
34. How long did the return trip take? ________________________________________________________
Pike’s Expedition. (Page 300)
35. What territory did Zebulon Pike explore? ___________________________________________________
36. What year did Louisiana enter the United States as a state in the union?_____________________________
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