Louisiana Purchase and Its Limits

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil; drawing or spoken answers are welcome.
• Topic notes: Louisiana Purchase: the 1803 purchase of France’s territorial claim. Exploration: travel intended to gather information about a region. Settlement: people establishing homes or communities in a place. Displacement: people being removed or pushed from their home places.
• Original exercise cards: A card identifies the U.S. agreement with France in 1803. / A card describes an expedition recording routes and observations. / A card describes newcomers establishing farms. / A card describes Native communities losing access to homelands. / A card describes mapping a region’s travel paths. / A card describes incoming people building permanent homes. / A card describes people forced away from established homes. / A card names the purchase expanding U.S. territorial claims.

Learn the idea

In 1803, the United States purchased France’s claim to Louisiana territory. This enlarged U.S. territorial claims but did not mean Native nations consented to losing their homelands. Exploration, settlement and displacement are distinct developments. A sale between governments cannot describe all the people already living there.

Louisiana Purchase: the 1803 purchase of France’s territorial claim. Exploration: travel intended to gather information about a region. Settlement: people establishing homes or communities in a place. Displacement: people being removed or pushed from their home places.

Tell the 1803 purchase of France’s claim apart from gathering information, establishing homes and forcing people from homelands. Read the notes and the word cards. You can write, draw or say your answer.

1. Read the four notes. Find the words Louisiana Purchase, Exploration, Settlement, Displacement.
2. Tell the 1803 purchase of France’s claim apart from gathering information, establishing homes and forcing people from homelands.
3. Read the worked answer. Then try the other cards and explain which words helped you choose.
4. Choose two different examples: one for Louisiana Purchase and one for Exploration. Explain how their clues differ.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

New card: “A card names the purchase expanding U.S. territorial claims.” Match it with a note, then point to or say the words that helped. Check: The card says: “A card names the purchase expanding U.S. territorial claims.” That matches Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana Purchase is the 1803 purchase of France’s territorial claim.

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