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The Platte Purchase was a land acquisition in 1836 by the United States government from American Indian tribes of the region. It comprised lands along the east bank of the Missouri River and added 3,149 square miles (8,156 km 2) to the northwest corner of the state of Missouri. This expansion of the slave state of Missouri was in violation of ...
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [a] or ...
The Pike Expedition (July 15, 1806 – July 1, 1807) was a military party sent out by President Thomas Jefferson and authorized by the United States government to explore the south and west of the recent Louisiana Purchase. [1] Roughly contemporaneous with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, it was led by United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike ...
In 1804, Napoleon sold the area west of the Mississippi River to the US in the Louisiana Purchase; the US roughly doubled its area at a cost of about $15,000,000. In 1820 the U.S. Army ordered Major Stephen H. Long to explore and map the area around the Platte. Long reported the area as a great American desert, despite its native inhabitants ...
December 6. Lewis travels by horseback to St. Louis in present-day Missouri intending to spend the winter procuring more supplies. [24][25] December 12. Clark arrives at the site of the expedition's winter encampment on the Mississippi River above St. Louis in Illinois.
1 – Charles Floyd, August 1804 near Sioux City, Iowa. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under ...
Part of the Platte Purchase: Platte River, a tributary of the Missouri River, which is in turn named for the French word "platte" meaning flat or shallow: 111,940: 420 sq mi (1,088 km 2) Polk County: 167: Bolivar: 1835: Greene County: James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the United States 32,780: 637 sq mi (1,650 km 2) Pulaski County ...
Map of North America, from an 1818 U.S. edition of Pinkerton's Atlas, showing the approximate area of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase west of the Mississippi River. Secretary Calhoun stated the expedition was a "part of a system of measures" to maintain northwestern trade, describing its objects as "the protection of our northwestern frontier and the greater extension of our fur trade."