Lewis, Clark & Louisiana Purchase

Who originally owned the Mississippi and Louisiana territory

• France

• Spain

• Britain

• Russia

The Pinckney Treaty was negotiated with the Spanish to

• buy the Mississippi and port at New Orleans

• buy the Louisiana territory for $15 million

• guarantee our right to use the Mississippi

• stop aiding Native americans with weapons to use against us

Spain secretly gave New Orleans to the French

• true

• false

Jefferson sent __________________ to negotiate with Napoleon

• Hamilton

• Knox

• Monroe

• Adams

Napoleon was very willing to sell this whole area to the U.S. because

• He needed money to purchase land from Haiti

• He needed money to stop the French Revolution

• He needed money to purchase land in Canada

• He needed money for the War against Britain

The Louisiana Purchase troubled Jefferson because

• he did not have the right to purchase land from a foreign country

• Congress threatened to over throw him if he approved the sale

• he wanted to keep peace with Britain

• it was waaay too much money for the United States to spend

Jefferson ultimately settled the issue with the purchase by

• persuading Congress

• sending the XYZ affair back to France to re-negotiate

• making a treaty

• selling the land to Lewis and Clark

The Louisiana Purchase doubled our size and

• increased our power

• expanded potential farm land

• increased our natural resources

• all of the above

Lewis and Clark were commissioned to lead an expedition to

• see if a water route existed between the Mississippi and Pacific Ocean

• remove the British from the forts they were still occupying in that region

• enslave Native Americans to begin clearing the land for crops

• begin creating a road system to make travel easier

Pocahontas was instrumental in helping the expedition members communicate with Native american tribes

• True

• False