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- 1st American to circumnavigate the globe (in 1790)

Robert Gran
What was the name of the ship Robert Gran sailed in?

Columbia
Why was Robert Gran's journey important?

-gave U.S. land claims on Pacific Coast of North America
- "secret" treaty between Spain and France-France regained Louisiana Territory (didn't want Napoleon to take over Spain)

Treaty of San Ildefonso
Why was Napoleon interested in Louisiana?

-was trying to build a new French empire

-planned to use Louisiana Territory to grow food for workers on sugar plantations in French West Indies
-led a slave revoltin French West Indies
-cost Napoleon $$ & soldiers to end

Toussant L'Ouveture
When Napoleon's plan failed what did he decide to do and why?

-decided to sell Louisiana Territory

-needed $$ & soldiers to fight in Europe

-also hoped a larger U.S. would threaten British
What were Jeffersons considerations in buying the Louisiana Territory? (5)

-was a strict constructionist-Constitution didn't give national gov't power to buy land

-against spending public $/cost of land would add to national debt

-land was necessary to build a nation of farmers

-americans needed to use Mississippi River & New Orlenas

-National Security-threatened by Napoleon in West
-announced on July 4th, 1803
-doubled size of U.S.
-moved western border to Rocky Mountains

Louisiana Purchase
What were Jefferson's goals for exploration of the West? (3)

-knowledge of land & people in west

-trade route to Pacific (NW Passage)

-form trade alliances with native Americans
-captain/overall leader
-natural scientist & "doctor" of expidition

Meriwether Lewis
-co-captian/co-leader
-map maker & engineer

William Clark
-Clark's slave/skilled hunter

York
-Shoshone indian
-guide & translator

Sacagawea
-French trader/ Sacagawea's husband
-a guide & translator

Toussant Enarponneau
-(1806-1807)
-explored southern Louisiana Territory-along Red and Arkansas Rivers

Pikes Expedition
-an explorer of the West who reached the summit of the mountain now known as Pike's Peak

Zebulon Pike

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Chapter 8 Test

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Section 2

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