America's Louisiana Purchase

1682 • LaSalle claims the lands drained by the Mississippi River for France (The Louisiana Territory)

1756-1763 • French and Indian War - Death of General Wolfe #3g02134u (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1762 • France cedes Louisiana Territory to Spain

1776 • American Revolution begins - George Washington and the French 3g03359u (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1783 • Treaty of Paris (Gives America new lands)

1789 • French Revolution begins - The Storming of the Tuileries Palace, August, 1792 (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

1795 • America receives right of deposit in New Orleans

1800 • Secret Treaty of San Ildefonso
1800 • France takes Louisiana Territory back from Spain

1802 • Slave Revolt on the Island of Saint Domingue

1803-1806 • Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Expedition - Lewis and Clark Buffalo Scene (Courtesy of Kathy Dickson)
1803-1806 • Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Expedition - Lewis and Bear (Courtesy of Kathy Dickson)

1803 • Louisiana Purchase - France sells Louisiana Territory to America (Courtesy of U. S. Capitol Historical Society)

1811 • America's largest Slave Revolt near New Orleans

1812 • War of 1812 between America and Great Britain begins 1812 - Jackson fighting on River #3g06878v (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1815 • Battle of New Orleans (America fights Great Britain) - Jackson on Hill #3f03796v (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1818 • British Cession of parts of Minnesota and North Dakota - Perry's Victory #3g06893v (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1819 • Adams Onis Treaty
1819 • America buys East and West Florida from Spain

1820 • Missouri Compromise - Forcing Slavery down the throat of a Freesoiler #3b38367u (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1821 • Monroe Doctrine - Monroe Doctrine (Courtesy of U. S. Capitol Historical Society)

1845 • Annexation of Texas
1845 • Manifest Destiny (1845-- Symbolic of America's Westward movement) - Manifest Destiny #09855u (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1846 • America obtains Oregon Territory from Great Britain via treaty - Truce between U. S. and Great Britain #3f05745v (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1848 • Mexican Cession - (America gains territory which would become AZ, CA, NV, NM, CO, WY) from Mexico - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - America Conquers Mexico #3g09950u (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1841-1869 • Oregon Trail - Wagon Train - Image SCBL_275 by William Henry Jackson (Courtesy of Scott's Bluff National Monument, U. S. National Park Service)

1861-1865 • Civil War Begins - Abraham Lincoln #00052r (Courtesy of U. S. Library of Congress)

1862 • Homestead Act of 1862 signed by Abraham Lincoln

1869 • First Transcontinental Railroad completed - Golden Spike (Courtesy of U. S. Capitol Historical Society)

States • Years when each state of the Louisiana Territory came into the union

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RESOURCES

National Archives and Records Administration (Transcription of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty)

NARA "Westward Expasion~The Louisiana Purchase"

Louisiana Secretary of State's Office

States by order of entry into the United States

Discovering Lewis and Clark

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Territorial Acquisitions of the United States

Louisiana: A History

Teaching American History Louisiana's Role in TRADITIONAL AMERICAN HISTORY (TAH) PROJECT

National and Louisiana Standards for teaching American History • Web Quest 1 • Web Quest 2

Bibliography

Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Ambrose, Stephen. Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery. Photographs by Sam Abell. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1998.

Ambrose, Stephen and Brinkley, Douglas. Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today. Edited by Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley. New York, Yew York: Harper, 1999.

Kastor, Peter. The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. New Haven: CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition, 2003

Richard, Carl. The Louisiana Purchase (Part of the Louisiana Life Series, No. 7). Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995

Other Related Reading:

Ambrose, Stephen. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Hyde, Sam. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, paperback edition 1997

Richard, Carl. “A Dialogue with the Ancients: Thomas Jefferson and Classical Philosophy and History” in Journal of the Early Republic (1989)