Bell Work

• Explain the significance of

Marbury v. Madison

.

• Turn in your Supreme Court questions.

This Day in History: January 7, 1789- The first U.S. presidential election is held. George Washington would be unanimously elected. January 7, 1953- President Harry Truman announces that the U.S. has developed the Hydrogen Bomb. January 7, 1989- Emperor Hirohito, who was the emperor of Japan during World War II, dies. January 7, 1999- The impeachment trial of Bill Clinton begins in the Senate.

The Louisiana Purchase

America Expands

• • • • Thousands of Americans had settled between the Appalachians and the Mississippi by 1800s.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio were admitted as states.

Settlers depended on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to move products east.

Jefferson worried about foreign control of New Orleans and Louisiana.

– Americans depended on the river, which could be disrupted if a foreign power shut down access to New Orleans.

Louisiana Purchase

• Jefferson sent ambassador to France to try to buy New Orleans. • The French offered to sell all of Louisiana.

– Napoléon had wanted to set up a North American empire, but a revolt in Haiti in 1802 ruined those plans.

• • Price was $15 million.

Louisiana Purchase

20, 1803.

approved by Senate on October • Nearly doubled size of United States.

Lewis and Clark

• Expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

• Led by

Meriwether Lewis

and

William Clark

.

• Included 50 skilled frontiersmen. • Began near St. Louis on May 14, 1804.

• Reached the Pacific Ocean in November, 1805.

• Received help from Native Americans, given food by Shoshone, Nez Percé, and others.

•

Sacagawea,

a Shoshone woman, served as a guide and interpreter.

Western Exploration

•

Zebulon Pike

explored area near Louisiana Territory’s western border with New Spain and the Rocky Mountains in 1806. • Pike’s report offered Americans their first description of the Southwest.

Lewis and Clark Interactive Journey

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/ • Two of Jefferson’s main goals for the expedition was to establish positive relationships with western Native American tribes and to find a water route through the continent to the Pacific. Write two paragraphs explaining why this was important and how the expedition was successful/unsuccessful?