The Lewis and Clark expedition impacted the United States of America extremely. Thomas Jefferson and others who had led the effort to create a new nation in the former British colonies had long sought to expand the nation’s borders. Very formidable obstacles stood in their way, namely the presence of the French and the fact that little was known about the land purchased from the French, let alone what lay beyond it. The first obstacle was effectively removed when Jefferson was elected president
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During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped creating a bridge from North America to Eurasia. 35,000 years ago This gave immigrants a chance to migrate over to the “New World”. Humans began to travel to America from Asia 33,000 - 8,000 B.C. This leads to the creation of the earliest civilizations in the Americas. Columbus’s Discovery 1492 He founded a “New World” that led to the colonization of people from Europe in America. The Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 This treaty between Spain and Portugal divided
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Activity 1: Cajun and Metis Music and Culture Hundreds of years ago, Native Americans inhabited the regions of North America. After many years, European explorers discovered the lands and began to colonize there. There were many interactions between the Natives and the Europeans. The Metis are a mixed-race group of people that resulted from the mating between European settlers and Native Americans. The Metis were often looked down upon since they did not belong in any specific category, and were
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European Influence on the Diegueno The biggest change to the Native American’s lives, which is the root to most of the other changes, was the exchanging of goods with the European traders and trappers. The Europeans wanted furs, leather, and other hides that could only be found in North America. And new plants not found in Europe (such as tobacco). The Diegueno would bring these goods to the trading posts. The furs were from animals such as beavers, deer, antelope and buffalo. They also brought
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The explorer named Zebulon Pike was recently assigned to aid Lewis and Clark’s expedition. During their time in the Mississippi River, Lewis and Clark split off from the expedition group, leaving Pike with about twenty. For months, Pike and his men continued up the Mississippi to a region unknown up to a lake. Pike named this lake Cass Lake and discovered that the lake was the Mississippi’s water source. However, recent research has concluded that this was a mistake. Beside that, Pike gathered critical
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occurred with the import and export of new plants, animals like horses, and disease. European disease ravaged Amerindian populations which were a plus to the conquistadors and viceroys because many natives in the lands they were taking over died due to sickness they had never seen. Not only did explorers from Europe brings new disease to the new world but they brought syphilis over to Europe that had never been an issue until the exploration period began. The Columbian exchange wasn’t just an interaction
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the Protestant Church. Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Was in Charge of 3 South Carolina plantations by the age of 16. Imported indigo to her plantation, which became a very important cash crop. John Smith: Leader of Jamestown Colony in Virginia. First explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay part of the first settlement to the New World. Helped save colony from devastation. Anne Hutchinson: Was a Puritan spiritual adviser and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the Massachusetts
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exploring the western frontier of america by our third president after purchasing all the land west of the mississippi.Without this journey most of most of America would not have been discovered. We would not have been known as Frontiersman or explorers. we would have never found the many tribes that have inhabited this land before we started discovering out west. this journey of a lifetime of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark would not have been possible without the Louisiana Purchase. the
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The Columbian Exchange named after Christopher Columbus happened during the 15th to 17th centuries. The explorers, settlers, and natives exchanged technology, animals, plants, and diseases among the Old World countries and the New World. Because of their trades and exploration our country has helped become what it is today. It is a powerful, wealthy, independent nation that has given opportunity to others that settlers were able to find when they came here. We have been blessed with the technologies
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upon because he “Founded America”, this statement is true, but what he did after he found this great land is questionable. Before I read this text I believed that Columbus was a good man because no one ever spoke down on him, he was seen as a great explorer. But by reading this text my mind has completely changed, I view him as a liar and a torturer. He captured and killed
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