Name________________________________ DUE Thursday Nov 15th, 2012
Social Studies- Chapter 10 , Sec 2 ​The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration
Read pages 345-349. ​Answer questions 1-8 pg. 349
1. Explain the importance of: ( pg 344)
● Louisiana Purchase- the land west of the Mississippi River that was purchased by the
U.S. from France in 1803.
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Meriwether Lewis- army captain appointed by Pres. Jefferson to explore the Louisiana
Territory and lands west of it to the Pacific Ocean.
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William Clark- co-leader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Sacagawea- Shoshone woman who assisted the Lewis & Clark expedition.
“The name is a​ ​compound​ of two common Hidatsa​
​ ​nouns​, ​cagáàga ​[tsaɡáàɡa]​ 'bird' and m
​ íà
[míà] 'woman'. The compound is written
​
as ​Cagáàgawia 'Bird Woman' in modern Hidatsa
orthography​, and pronounced​ ​[tsaɡáàɡawia]​ (/m/ is pronounced [w] between vowels in Hidatsa).
The double /aa/ in the name indicates a long​ ​vowel​ and the​ ​diacritics​ a falling​ ​pitch​ pattern.
Hidatsa is a pitch-accent language
​ ​ that​ does not have stress, therefore in the Hidatsa
pronunciation
ɡ ɡ all syllables in [tsa áà awia] are pronounced with roughly the same
relative emphasis.”
(YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW ALL THE DETAILS OF THE EXPLANATION ABOVE ABOUT
SACAGAWEA-- JUST THE ITALICIZED PART.)
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Zebulon Pike- leader of a southern expedition in the Louisiana Territory.
Name________________________________ DUE Thursday Nov 15th, 2012
Social Studies- Chapter 10 , Sec 2 ​The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration
Read pages 345-349. ​Answer questions 1-8 pg. 349
3. Why was the Louisiana Purchase important to Jefferson? ( pgs 346)
One important reason was that Jefferson believed in the idea of the U.S. as a nation of small
farmers-- you need lots of land for that to happen.
He was also smart enough to realize that this helped push other countries claims/boundaries
further west- away from the Mississippi River- and would make the U.S. stronger.
4. Why were Lewis and Clark instructed to to document the natural resources they found in their
travels? ( pgs 348-349)
Little was known about the territory-- the information they could provide would help let it be
known if the land could be farmed or if it had other resources that could be used.
5. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States? ( pg 346)
It doubled the size of the U.S.
Permitted settlers to continue to spread out onto new land.
6. How might the information gathered by the explorers be useful to Jefferson? ( pg 349)
It might include news of valuable resources.
There was also a general lack of information about the territory...
Was there an all-water route??? How powerful were the Native American tribes that were
there??? This was important to know.