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Lewis and Clark-Louisiana Purchase Review Game

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Lewis and Clark-Louisiana Purchase Jeopardy Style Review Game

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The Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was the largest and most extraordinary land purchase in the history of the United States. It was also the cheapest (per square mile).
At the turn of the 19th Century, Americans were moving further westward. Settlers had crossed the Appalachian Mountains and headed for parts known and unknown. Pioneers like Daniel Boone had blazed trails and roads, allowing families to travel to new places. Soon, the Northwest Territory and other places were bustling with Americans.

Everyone wanted more: more places to live, more livestock for their farms. The one thing that the United States Government wanted more of was land. And the Louisiana Territory had a lot of land.

Louisiana was owned by France, and New Orleans was a huge French settlement. Many Americans lived in and around New Orleans, and many American ships sailed back and forth on the river. The U.S. Government wanted to protect American shipping and settlements.

So President Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston to France to buy New Orleans and the surrounding area. Napoleon, who was by this time effectively the dictator of France, refused. He was involved in wars in Europe and had dreams of a western empire as well.

After Napoleon's initial refusal, Jefferson sent as well to France, in hopes of convincing Napoleon to reconsider. The French leader did more than that: He offered to sell James Monroe all of the Louisiana Territory, more than 828,000 square miles! Livingston and Monroe quickly accepted and offered to pay $15 million. Both sides agreed, and the Louisiana Territory became American. The final transfer came in 1803.

Why did Napoleon change his mind? Things were going badly for him, and he needed the money. Why did Livingston and Monroe accept? They would have seen silly not to.

With one transaction, the size of the country doubled. The landscape of the United States and North America would be forever changed.

Such a large land had many Americans living in it, but the bulk of it was unknown to Americans. So Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore it.

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The Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the largest and most extraordinary land purchase in the history of the United States. It was also the cheapest (per square mile). At the turn of the 19th Century, Americans were moving further westward. Settlers had crossed the Appalachian Mountains and headed for parts known and unknown.

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On July 13, 1787, Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a policy for the addition of new states to the nation. The members of Congress knew that if their new confederation were to survive intact, it had to resolve the states' competing claims to western territory.

In 1781, Virginia began by ceding its extensive land claims to Congress, a move that made other states more comfortable in doing the same. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson first proposed a method of incorporating these western territories into the United States. His plan effectively turned the territories into colonies of the existing states. Ten new northwestern territories would select the constitution of an existing state and then wait until its population reached 20,000 to join the confederation as a full member. Congress, however, feared that the new states-10 in the Northwest as well as Kentucky, Tennessee and Vermont-would quickly gain enough power to outvote the old ones and never passed the measure.

Three years later, the Northwest Ordinance proposed that three to five new states be created from the Northwest Territory. Instead of adopting the legal constructs of an existing state, each territory would have an appointed governor and council. When the population reached 5,000, the residents could elect their own assembly, although the governor would retain absolute veto power. When 60,000 settlers resided in a territory, they could draft a constitution and petition for full statehood. The ordinance provided for civil liberties and public education within the new territories, but did not allow slavery. Pro-slavery Southerners were willing to go along with this because they hoped that the new states would be populated by white settlers from the South. They believed that although these Southerners would have no enslaved workers of their own, they would not join the growing abolition movement of the North.

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On July 13, 1787, Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a policy for the addition of new states to the nation. The members of Congress knew that if their new confederation were to survive intact, it had to resolve the states' competing claims to western territory.

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This video discusses the provisions included in the Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance.

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Ms. Lee explains the difference between the Land and Northwest Ordinances!