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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.

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The Louisiana Purchase
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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.

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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 approved by Senate on October
  20, 1803.
• Nearly doubled size of United States.

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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.

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Western Exploration

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

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Lewis and Clark Interactive Journey

• http//www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
• Two of Jeffersons 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?