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It’s 1802. President Jefferson has just gotten a copy of Alexander Mackenzie's book, Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America. The book chronicles Mackenzie's trip across Canadian North America to the Pacific Coast. In the book he suggests that the American West is a fertile area, open to colonizing and occupation by British citizens, who ... |
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| Date: January 18, 1803 |
Essential Questions
International Politics
How would you characterize international relations in the 10 years before the expedition?
Diversity
In what ways did the Louisiana Purchase force the United States to consider diversity?
Mississippi River
Why was the Mississippi River so important to U.S. interests?
Upper Missouri
What did President Jefferson and geographers in general know about the physical geography of the upper Missouri River? How did they know it?
Civil War
Some historians suggest that the Louisiana Purchase led to the Civil War? How could they support such a statement when the Civil War was more than 60 years after the Louisiana Purchase?
Alternate Endings
What would it have been like if England had secured the Louisiana Territory? France? What if we had not gotten this land and a new country came to exist next to the United States?
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