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Importance of the port of NO |
The port of NO was relied on by the farmers who shipped goods down the misisip and stored them in the NO warehouses and then shipped them east to market. |
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Pinckney Treaty |
When spain threatened to close the port to Americans, GW sent Pickney to negotiate- Spain agreed to let the Americans ship goods down the misisp & store em in the warehouses of NO |
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Napolean Bonaparte |
Ruler of France, sold Louisisana to the Americans after reciving it from the Spanish |
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Revolt in Haiti |
N wanted to grow food in the French wets Indies, Haiti changed this Haiti was the richest French colony in the carribean- enslaved Af Ams worked on sugar plantations that made French planters wealthy-Toussaint L'Overture led a revolt to fight 4 liberty/ almost got the French out o Haiti N tried to recaptured Haiti- he got Tou, but not Haiti, who declared independence in 1804 |
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Louisiana Purchase |
When Jef tried to buy NO & West Florida from Napolean, he sent Livingston & Monroe to negotiate wt Talleyrand, at NO. They were told not to spend more than $10 mil- Talley offered all of Louisiana and the agreed price was $15 mil. 1803, US takes control of lands west of the misisip |
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Exploratiing New Lands |
Since the Ams knew little about th enew land, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent to explore the new lands-they were told to make a map to the Pacific Ocean-and study the climate, wildlife, soil, resouces & native Am Nations-May 1804, L+C travel up the Missouri from St.Louis. |
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Sacajawea |
A shoshone woman who offered to be the guide and translator 4 the company |
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Continental Divide |
mountain range that separates river systems |
