It's about the journey that Lewis and Clark made in the 1800s. They made some big discoveries.

1. Louisiana Purchase and Lewis
and Clark
1804-1806
By: Khloe G.

2. The Louisiana Purchase
•America bought from France all the Louisiana Territory
about 827,000 miles for over $15 million.
•This was the largest territory gain.
•Much of the land was unknown and undiscovered by
the Europeans.

4. Lewis and Clark
• Jefferson wanted to explore the new United States
territory.
• Jefferson assigned his personal secretary Meriwether
Lewis lead the expedition.
• William Clark was then chosen by Lewis to help lead the
expedition.
• These men then put together what became known as the
Discovery Corps.

5. Meriwether Lewis

6. William Clark

7. Map of the
Expedition

8. Fort Mandan
• The Discovery Corps traveled up from St. Louis to make a winter camp
for the winter of 1804 -1805.
• They arrive at the Mandan and the Hidatsa’s village which had a larger
population than D.C. or St. Louis.
• They made camp across the river from the village
• That winter they recorded the temperature at 45 degrees below zero,
colder than they ever knew.

9. Sacagawea
• Lewis and Clark hire a French man, Charbonneau, who had been living
as an interpreter for the Hidatsa’s.
• Sacagawea, a Shoshone girl, was the prisoner of the Hidatsa's before
being sold to Charbonneau.
• While camped for the winter, Sacagawea gave birth to her son, helped
into labor by a concoction Lewis made of crushed rattlesnake rattles.
• Sacagawea goes with her husband along with Lewis and Clark.

10. Sacagawea

11. Medicine in the early 1800s
• Germ theory did not come about until the early 1860s.
• The top physician of the country was a man named Benjamin Rush.
• Rush believed that the best way to cure anything was to purge the body.
• Methods of purging included:
-Blood letting
-Ingesting mercury
• Lewis was trained by Rush before the expedition

12. What Became of Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea
• William Clark marries a woman, Julia, who he loved before his trip
and named a river after
• In 1809 Meriwether Lewis commits suicide
• In 1812 Sacagawea dies and Clark takes custody of her son Jean-
Baptiste and daughter Lisette.
• Clark dies of old age in 1838 in the home of his eldest son,
Meriwether Lewis Clark.