Louisiana Purchase

Westward Expansion: Lewis and Clark You have probably heard of the Lewis and Clark expedition. this expedition was very hard and difficult in many ways.they faced many hardships, but in the end they succeeded and changed the life of the united states as we know it.according to national geographic “Lewis Clark Great Journey West”,”to survive was the equivalent in it’s day of a journey to the moon” When president Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition out to the rocky mountains.…

R. Livingston are sent to France to compromise with Napoleon Bonaparte. Previously in 1802, Bonaparte closed the port of New Orleans to the United States as France was in control of Louisiana. Monroe and Livingston’s trip to France resulted in the United States paying fifteen million dollars for the entire Louisiana Territory, doubling the size of the nation. After this deal was made and approved by the Senate, Jefferson began searching for who he would entrust with the task to explore the new…

The battle for Madagascar was an important, but often overlooked battle during World War II. The island had fallen under control of the Nazi puppet government known as Vichy France. Under the colonial government, this island was going to be used not only to station Japanese vessels as a strategic advantage, but also for possible future concentration camps for Polish Jews, sent over by the Nazis. This was known as the Madagascar Plan. The main concern by the British was not just the issue of…

He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 miles and three years, taking the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and to the Pacific Ocean.…

The nineteenth century is associated with the rise of the West where unprecedented power came to be concentrated in Britain and France. Considering that in 1800 Western powers held approximately 35 percent of the earth’s surface which had risen to 67 percent by 1878 and a staggering 85 percent by 1914 illustrates how the world, like never before, was united into a single interacting whole by the Western imperial powers (Said 6). The use of the term ‘interacting whole’ to describe the world in…

One of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key point for international trade. The earliest idea of a canal going across the Isthmus of Panama goes back to 1534 when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, ordered a route through the Americas that would make it easier for ships traveling between Spain and Peru. The route…

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, this is also one of the seven modern wonders of the World. In the past years, there are more than 850,000 ships and 250 million tons of cargo that had passed through the Panama Canal. The United States began building the canal in 1904 and completed in 1914, after France unsuccessfully build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama in 1800s. The canal is a man-made waterway, when they were constructing the Panama Canal there were…

Thomas Jefferson became America’s third president in 1800, during that time the United States did not stretch all the way across the continent. Jefferson wanted to build a system to connect people throughout the country; he wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. During 1803 to 1806 a group of explorers traveled North America in search of such a waterway, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the exploration west. Upon their travels, they found out…

Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark went to Louisiana to look for a new route to the west. on the expedition over 40 men went on the trip in May 14 1804 .they traded with different tribes they also started to pack in 1804. You know it would be without a doubt if they did not have help during the expedition they would have surely died. Lewis and Clark went to Louisiana to try to find a new path to the west Lewis and Clark had a lot of help through the expedition from other tribes like the maiden…

At the beginning of the 19th century, two men, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a three year journey from St. Louis, Missouri westward toward the Pacific Coast. The expedition west brought forth many challenges including spring storms that flooded the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Throughout the journey out to the Pacific and back to St. Louis, Missouri, the threat of Native American confrontation persisted. Along the way, both Lewis and Clark encountered frequent dangers and life…