Transcript SSH4H6 - Effingham County Schools

SSH4H6
The students will explain the
westward expansion of
America between 1801 and
1861
Review
• ______ ______
was the first
President of the United States.
• President Washington served ____ terms
as President. Each term is ___ years long.
• As President, Washington listened to all
people. He said that we should not form
________ parties.
Review: The Early Republic
• As the East filled with farms and towns,
settlers crossed the ________ ________
and built settlements.
Families traveled _____ in wagons and
_________.
______ ______
over land.
fought with the settlers
Essential Question:
• How did our new nation
grow?
Vocabulary:
• Manufacturer
• -people who use machines to make
goods
• Corps
• -a team of people who work together
• Interpreter
• -someone who helps people who speak
different languages understand each
other
• Source
• -the place where a river begins
A New President
• Thomas Jefferson became
President of the United
States in 1801.
• He was our third
President.
Political Parties
• When Jefferson was elected, the
Federalist party, headed by
President John Adams, believed
that our national government
should be stronger than the state
government, and should help
manufacturers. They gave up
power to the DemocraticRepublican party.
• Jefferson, a DemocraticRepublican, believed that state
governments should be stronger
than the federal government and
he wanted to help farmers.
• During his years in office, the
country grew in size.
How did the country grow in size?
• First- Jefferson made the national
government smaller by lowering
taxes and decreasing the size of
the army.
The second event that
happened while Jefferson was
President was called the
Louisiana Purchase
Have you ever spent more money
than you had permission to spend?
• More money than allowed was
spent on the Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana Purchase
• The biggest port in
Louisiana was the
port of New Orleans.
Farmers wanted to
ship their products down
the Mississippi River to
Louisiana, which was
owned by France.
In 1802, President Jefferson
sent representatives to France
to see if farmers could
use the port.
Napoleon Bonaparte
• Napoleon Bonaparte
was the ruler of France.
He needed money
to go to war against
Great Britain.
He sold all of Louisiana
Territory to the
United States.
*The Louisiana Purchase
doubled the size of
the United States.
What is out there?
• Jefferson wanted to know more about the
Louisiana Territory.
• He asked Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark to lead an expedition to explore the
west.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark
to do these three things:
1. Gather information about
the land, plants, animals
and weather.
2.Study the cultures of the
Western Indians
3. Look for a water route to
the Pacific Ocean by way of
the Missouri and Columbia
Rivers.
Lewis and Clark expedition:
• Lewis and Clark and
more than 30 people
left St.Louis,
Missouri in 1804.
• Their group was
called the Corp of
Discovery.
• Sacagawea, an
American Indian,
was the wife of the
group’s interpreter.
No water route
• The Corp of Discovery returned from their
expedition after two years.
• They did not find a water route to the Pacific
but brought back journals full of notes about
the land and people
Zebulon Pike
• Zebulon Pike led a group to find the source
of the Mississippi River. He explored
Missouri and then went north to Minnesota.
• He learned about the land but did not find
the river’s source.
More exploration:
• One year later, Pike explored the Arkansas
and Red Rivers that run through the southern
part of the Louisiana Territory.
A Way West
• Lewis and Clark
proved that it was
possible to cross
the continent through
the Rocky Mountains.
The discoveries of Lewis
and Clark and Pike led
the way for traders and
other pioneers.
Essential Question:
• How did our new nation
grow?
Growth of Our Nation:
• The purchase of the Louisiana Territory
from France, doubled the size of the
United States.
• It allowed the US to gain control of the port
of New Orleans, which allowed them to
move up and down the Mississippi River
and look forward to adding more
territories.