The Growing United States

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The Growing United States

• Moving West!

Created By Portia Stewart
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Make a title slide
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Pathfinders and Pioneers Leading the Way

• Daniel Boone

Lewis and Clark
Zebulon Pike
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Pathfinders and Pioneers Leading the Way

• Which explorers lead the way for explorations
  west?

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Pioneer

• A person who first settles in a new place.

Daniel Boone was one of the earliest and
best-known pioneers to cross the Appalachian
Mountains.
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Pioneers

• What is a pioneer?
• Who is the best known pioneer?

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Exploring the Appalachians
Boone followed the Warriors Path, an Indian
trail that crossed the mountains, with the help
of John Finley.
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Exploring the Appalachians

• How did Boone get across the Appalachian
  Mountains and what did he find?

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Appalachian Discoveries

• Once across, Boone saw buffalo roaming on land
  that seemed to go on forever. This land is now
  the state of Kentucky.

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Comprehension

• 1. What is a pioneer?

2. Who is the best known pioneer?
3. How did Boone get across the Appalachian
Mountains and what did he find when he got there?
4. Which explorers lead the way for explorations
west?
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The Louisiana Purchase
On April 30, 1803 the United States purchased a
huge territory from France. The year 2003 marks
the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase.
This land reached from the Mississippi River west
to the Rocky Mountains and from New Orleans north
to Canada.
With the Louisiana Purchase the United States
doubled in size and became one of the largest
countries in the world.
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The Louisiana Purchase

• What is the Louisiana Purchase?

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Pathfinders

• Someone who finds a way through an unknown region.

Led expeditions into the unknown regions of the
Louisiana Purchase.
William Clark
Meriwether Lewis
Zebulon Pike
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Pathfinders

• What is a path finder?
• Who are some well-known pathfinders?

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Exploring the Louisiana Lands

• President Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to
  lead an expedition to explore the lands of the
  Louisiana Purchase.

Lewis chose William Clark to help him lead the
expedition.
This journey became known as the Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
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Exploring the Louisiana Lands

• Who explored the lands acquired in the Louisiana
  Purchase?
• What did they find?

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Louisiana Land Findings
Lewis and Clark bought back seeds, plants, and
living animals.

• They were also able to learn the geography of the
  region and create maps showing major rivers and
  mountains

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Exploring Southwest Louisiana Lands

• Before Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis
  another expedition set out from the Missouri
  River to explore the lands in the southwestern
  part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Zebulon Pike led an expedition into the
southwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Journey to the Southwest

• Who led the expedition in the southwest lands of
  the Louisiana Purchase?

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Southwest Louisiana Land Findings

• Pike saw lands covered with buffalo and beautiful
  mountains.

As Pikes expedition pushed on he wandered out of
the Louisiana Purchase land and onto Spanish land.
Pike found that the people of this territory,
Santa Fe, needed manufactured goods.
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Comprehension
1. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the
United States?
2. What is the Louisiana Purchase?
3. What is a path finder? Who are some well-known
pathfinders?
4. What did Lewis and Clark learn from their
expedition?
5. Who explored the lands acquired in the
Louisiana Purchase? What did they find?
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Fun Facts

• Pike and the other explorers were put in jail for
  wandering into Spanish land.
• The discovery of this land later led to an
  invasion of another kind.

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