https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r en-us 2019-09-28 14:41:55 UTC 2023-03-06 05:18:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f392.png clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390871197 President Jefferson commissioned Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory. 
The woman in the painting is Sacagawea.]]> 2019-09-28 14:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390871197 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390872150 Click the link below to take a trip. Below in the discussion area, tell me one reason why Jefferson wanted them to go and one thing they saw along the trip.]]> 2019-09-28 14:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390872150 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390872692 President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million or 3 cents per acre.]]> 2019-09-28 15:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390872692 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390873744 In the 1820's and 1830's, trappers or mountain men moved into the area explored by Lewis and Clark collecting animal skins, especially beaver skins. The hat below is made of beaver skins.]]> 2019-09-28 15:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390873744 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390875260 In the 1840's, families migrated to Oregon for land or to California for gold.
Click on the video below to hear Sally Hester's trip west. 
If Sally had a cell phone on her trip west, how would she have used it to help her family to make the trip easier?]]> 2019-09-28 15:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390875260 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390877237 After Texas received it independence from Mexico in 1836, they petitioned the United States for statehood.  Due to the free vs slave state controversy, Congress did not pass a joint resolution to annex Texas into the United States until 1845. ]]> 2019-09-28 15:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390877237 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390877812 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War where Mexico ceded land which is part of present day California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to the United States.

]]> 2019-09-28 15:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390877812 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390882341 You are going to file a claim on land in eastern South Dakota under the Homestead Act.  When choosing your piece of land, what will you want the land to have to make sure that you are successful? Write your comment in the discussion box below.]]> 2019-09-28 16:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390882341 clayschoice https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390882818 President Andrew Jackson forcibly removed Native American tribes lands east of the Mississippi River to land west of the Mississippi River which would be come Oklahoma.  
Put yourself in the skin of a Cherokee man, woman or child and tell me in the discussion box below how this would make you feel.]]> 2019-09-28 16:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/clayschoice/6zkon9avyk9r/wish/390882818