THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

WESTWARD, HO!

• Many of the pioneers moving west-ward were farmers
• During the trip to the west, the pioneers had to always have their two most valued possessions, a gun, and an axe
• The Spanish allowed the Americans to use the lower Mississippi River for crop and market reasons

THE FRENCH THREAT

• For a few years, the Spanish allowed the Americans to use the Mississippi, but in 1802, the Spanish changed and no longer allowed American goods to be transported past New Orleans
• Spain and France had secretly agreed to tranfer the Louisiana Purchase to France

NAPOLEAN AND SANTO DOMINGO

• Santo Domingo was renamed Haiti
• When the French tried to overrun Santo Domingo, they lost

AN EXPANDING NATION

• A french official told the U.S. that the Louisiana Purchase was for sale
• Livinston and Monroe closed the deal of the Louisiana Purchase, even though they did not have authorization

THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXOEDITION

• The expedition served many purposes including surveying the land and finding new plants and animals
• The expedition also let the U.S. find and map the fabled Northwest Passage
• Meriwether Lewis was Thomas Jefferson's secretary

A FEDERALIST PLAN TO SECEDE

• A group of federalists in Massachusetts planed to secede from the Union
• New England would become the Northwest Confederacy

HAMILTON AND BURR DUEL

• A duel is where two people take ten steps away from each other, then turn and shoot at each other, eventually, someone will be dead (Hamilton was killed)
• Dueling was illegal and still is