1011+Louisiana+Purchase

=**Louisiana Purchase**= The U.S purchased Louisiana from France on April 30, 1803. The price was about $15,000,000. This purchase made the U.S much larger. Now the United States owned both sides of the Mississippi River.Then when Thomas Jefferson had the Louisiana purchase He sent out Meriweather Lewis to discover the new lands to see what was out there. He also wanted to now if there was a North West Passage. So the United States could trade with China. So then Lewis asked some of his freinds to come. One of the men was William Clark. Then they both made a group of about thrirty men ,and that group's name was the Corps o Discovery. Another person who led a expedition on the new land was a man named as Zebulon Pike. While Lewis and Clark went up the new land, but Pike went down the new land.

Thomas Jefferson bought 828,000 square miles of the land. Lewis and Clark traveled about 3,700 miles up the new land. Lewis and Clark found many things, but not what they predicated would be there. They thought there would be wooly mammoths and erupting valcanoes. They found pronghorn, buffalo or bison, cheeries, currents, and other things. clark was a cartographer or map maker which means we documented the route he took to get up and back down the land to Thomas Jefferson.