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Page 1: Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France – He wanted to raise an army large enough to take over Europe!! – In order

Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase

• As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France– He wanted to raise an

army large enough to take over Europe!!

– In order to do that, he needs to make some money.

Page 2: Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France – He wanted to raise an army large enough to take over Europe!! – In order

France, 1802

• Napoleon starts to look for ways to make money:

• Two ideas:– Take back some old

French colonies in Bahamas

– Attack America and take more land…

Page 3: Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France – He wanted to raise an army large enough to take over Europe!! – In order

1802Napoleon decides to try to retake Haiti• Used to be a French colony

• Was taken back by slaves led by Toussaint – Louverture– Former slave who was the son of

a African king

• Napoleon sends 3,000 men by boat to take back island– Most die of yellow fever on the

way there!

– Napoleon loses and heads back to France….

– How else can France make money?

Page 4: Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France – He wanted to raise an army large enough to take over Europe!! – In order

Thomas Jefferson gets information that France is looking for some $$$

• Pres. Jefferson sends Sec. of State Monroe to France

• One goal:– Find out if they are

interested in selling New Orleans.

• We would buy it to keep access to Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi River

Page 5: Chapter 11.2 The Louisiana Purchase As Napoleon attempted to rebuild France – He wanted to raise an army large enough to take over Europe!! – In order

Napoleon gives us more than we ask for…

• Napoleon argues that without New Orleans, there is no need to keep the Louisiana Territory at all. – Would we be interested in

buying all of it?

– Problem: We’ve never been there ourselves• We don’t know what we will

find– Rivers? – Mountains? – Prairies? – Swamps?

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Napoleon offers us a deal we could not refuse…the Louisiana Purchase

• New Orleans– $10 million

• $1,000 an acre

• All of the Louisiana Territory – $15 million

• $ 4 an acre

• We buy all of it on May 2, 1803.

• On a side note,– Ohio became the 17th state on

March 1, 1803• Hurray!

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So, what did we just buy? • We have no idea…so let’s go

explore.

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are hired to explore the new territory.

• Goal:– Head NW across Louisiana Territory

– Find the Pacific Ocean

– Identify all:

• Rivers• Mountains• Animals• Indians

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Lewis and Clark Finds…Great Plains

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Lewis and Clark Finds…Buffalo on the range

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Lewis and Clark Finds…the Rocky Mts.

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Lewis and Clark Finds…West Coast

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Other Explorers• Zebulon Pike

– Army officer hired to search the SW part of Louisiana Territory

• Goal:– Follow Red River SW to see

where it ends• Found Pike’s Peak

– Largest mountain in Rocky Mts.

• Gets caught in Spanish territory– Modern day New Mexico

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What Pike would’ve seen…Pike’s Peak

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What Pike would’ve seen…desert

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What Pike would’ve seen…more desert

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Review Questions

• What island did Napoleon fail to conquer in the Bahamas?

• How much money did we purchase the Louisiana Territory for from France?

• What were the names of the explorers sent to research the new land purchased in the Louisiana Territory?


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