The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration Copy the notes

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The Corps of Discovery The Lewis and Clark expedition began in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson had purchased all of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon of France for 15 million dollars. Jefferson asked his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead the expedition. Lewis asked his old army friend, William Clark, to co-lead the expedition with him.

The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States!

For What Purpose? If you were president, what two reasons would you have to make such a purchase? What do you believe Jefferson’s purpose was for purchasing the Louisiana Territory? Let’s investigate! With your partner, find the motive by analyzing the primary source document.

Captain Meriwether Lewis He joined the army at 20 years old. He was made President Jefferson’s personal secretary in 1801. Jefferson asked Lewis to lead and the Corps of Discovery. Lewis was the scientist on the journey, keeping detailed records of the plants and animals they found.

William Clark was born in 1770 and at 19 joined the military. Clark met Meriwether Lewis when they were both in the army. Lewis asked Clark to help him lead the expedition across the country. Clark was the geographer on the trip, keeping a detailed diary including many drawings and maps. William Clark

New Land? Who lives in this territory? What would you expect the expedition to encounter? What kind of a person does this? !

Knowing what your goal is, what would you pack along on this journey? List the top 5 people you would take with you, explain why? What to pack? What do they bring to the table? One of Lewis’ packing lists

Packing List Compare your list to the actual list on the next slides. What did you match? What did you miss? Did you bring along the right people?

Mathematical Instruments: surveyor’s compass hand compass quadrants telescope thermometers 2 sextants set of plotting instruments chronometer (needed to calculate longitude) Camp Supplies: 150 yards of cloth to be oiled and sewn into tents and sheets pliers chisels 30 steels for striking to make fire handsaws hatchets whetstones iron corn mill two dozen tablespoons mosquito curtains 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines 12 pounds of soap 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste concocted by boiling down beef, eggs and vegetables) three bushels of salt writing paper, ink and crayons

Presents for Indians: 12 dozen pocket mirrors 4, 600 sewing needles 144 small scissors 10 pounds of sewing thread silk ribbons ivory combs handkerchiefs yards of bright-colored cloth 130 rolls of tobacco tomahawks that doubled as pipes 288 knives 8 brass kettles vermilion face paint 33 pounds of tiny beads of assorted colors Clothing: 45 flannel shirts coats frocks shoes woolen pants blankets knapsacks stockings Arms and Ammunition: • 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading. 54 caliber rifles • knives • 500 rifle flints • 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets • 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead canisters • 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air, rather than by flint, spark and powder Medicine and Medical Supplies: • 50 dozen Dr. Rush’s patented "Rush’s pills" • lancets • forceps • syringes • tourniquets • 1, 300 doses of physic • 1, 100 hundred doses of emetic • 3, 500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer) • other drugs for blistering, salivation and increased kidney output Traveling Library: • Barton’s Elements of Botany • Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s History of Louisiana • Richard Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy • A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy • The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris • a four-volume dictionary • a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin classification of plants) • tables for finding longitude and latitude • map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River

The Corps of Discovery Captains Meriwether Lewis William Clark. Sergeants Charles Floyd Patrick Gass John Ordway Nathaniel Pryor Non-Military Members Toussaint Charbonneau Sacagawea Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Baptiste Deschamps Pierre Dorion George Drouillard York Non-Human Members Seaman Privates William Bratton John Collins John Colter Pierre Cruzatte Joseph Field Reuben Field Robert Frazer George Gibson Silas Goodrich Hugh Hall Thomas Proctor Howard Francois La. Biche Jean Baptiste Le. Page Hugh Mc. Neal John Potts George Shannon John Shields John B. Thompson Peter M. Weiser William Werner Joseph Whitehouse Alexander Hamilton Willard Richard Windsor

Toussaint Charbonneau was a French Canadian fur trader. He had lived among the Indians since 1796. He had a captive Shoshone Indian “wife”. She had been captured by a Hidatsa war party about 1800, and sold as a slave to Toussaint. Her name was Sacagawea. She was approximately 16 years old in 1804. Charbonneau would act as interpreter during the expedition.

Sacagawea was 12 when she was kidnapped and sold into slavery and about 16 when she “married” Charbonneau. She would serve as interpreter on the journey. Sacagawea had a son during the expedition.

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea. He became the youngest explorer on the Corps of Discovery. Clark nicknamed him “Pomp. ”

York was Clark’s childhood companion and his “manservant”, which meant he was a slave. We know he was big. We know he was very athletic. He was a great dancer. He was devoted to William Clark. He was a great help to the expedition because he was such a curiosity.

More York Indians had never seen a black man before. There is a painting in the Mandan lodges of the Mandan chief trying to rub the black off of York’s skin. York was finally set free ten years after the expedition ended.

Seaman was captain Lewis’s dog. Lewis wrote often in his journal about Seaman. “T]he squirrel appears in great abundance on either side of the river. I made my dog take as many each day as I had occasion for, they were fat and I thought them when fried a pleasant food. ” Nothing is known of what happened to Seaman after the expedition. Seaman