Online sources that may be useful for this topic...
www.discoveryeducation.com
Discovering Lewis and Clark
Discovering Lewis and Clark, a prototype and
workshop for a CD-ROM. This is a progressive Web
site. It is enhanced by at least one new interpretive
episode each month.
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
Avalon Project: Louisiana Purchase; 1803 and
Associated Documents
Diplomatic papers of the United States.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/frl803m.htm
Encyclopedia.com - Results for Louisiana Purchase 1803,
U.S. acquisition from France of the region of Louisiana.
Uneasy at news that Spain had secretly retroceded
Louisiana to aggressive Napoleonic France, Pres.
Jefferson in 1802 dispatched Robert...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07660.html
Encyclopedia Entry
1803, American acquisition from France of the
formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. Reasons for the
Purchase: The revelation in 1801 of the secret
agreement of 1800 whereby Spain...
http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE031388.html
Exhibit: The Louisiana Purchase
National Archives and Records Administration "Let the
Land rejoice, for you have bought Louisiana for a
song." Horatio Gates to President Jefferson, July 18,
1803
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/loupurch.html
Avalon Project: Louisiana Purchase; 1803 and
Associated Documents
Diplomatic papers of the United States.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/frl803m.htm
Discovering Lewis and Clark
Discovering Lewis and Clark, a prototype and
workshop for a CD-ROM. This is a progressive Web
site. It is enhanced by at least one new interpretive
episode each month.
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
Encyclopedia.com - Results for Louisiana Purchase 1803,
U.S. acquisition from France of the region of Louisiana.
Uneasy at news that Spain had secretly retroceded
Louisiana to aggressive Napoleonic France, Pres.
Jefferson in 1802 dispatched Robert...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07660.html
Encyclopedia Entry
1803, American acquisition from France of the
formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. Reasons for the
Purchase: The revelation in 1801 of the secret
agreement of 1800 whereby Spain...
http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE031388.html
Exhibit: The Louisiana Purchase National Archives and Records
Administration "Let the Land rejoice, for you have bought Louisiana for a
song." Horatio Gates to President Jefferson, July 18, 1803
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/loupurch.html23
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail home page The
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is approximately
3,700 miles long, begins near Wood River, Illinois, and
passes through portions of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon, and Washington.
http://www.nps.gov/lecl/
Lewis and dark's Historic Trail
On May 14th 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the
Louisiana Territory.
http://www.lewisclark.net/
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
The mission of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage
Foundation is to honor the remarkable historic legacy of
Lewis and Clark through research, education,
preservation, promotion, and coordination.
http://www.lewisandclark.org/
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
In 1803 United States President Thomas Jefferson set
the example of getting new territory by purchase rather
than by war. He did so by buying from France the vast
tract of land known as Louisiana.
http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/02868_A.html
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase. By a treaty signed on April 30,
1803, the United States Purchased from France the
Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km
(800,000 sq mi) of land...
http://www.gatewayno.com/History/LaPurchase.html