The Louisiana Purchase

 

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New Orleans, Louisiana
The Louisiana Purchase

 

U.S. Territorial Map 1800
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/TERRITORY/1800map.html

Video

 

Video Series: A Biography of America (VTC 4648)
#6: Westward Expansion

Documents

 

Louisiana Purchase Treaty
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=18

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/loupurch.html

The Lewis and Clark Journey Log
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journey_intro.html

Louisiana Purchase
http://gatewayno.com/history/LaPurchase.html

The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edad728/lewclk/lcproject.html
(with scavenger-hunt type questions)

 

The Lousisana Purchase & game
http://members.tripod.com/~jtlawson/

Montana Tribes and the Expedition
http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/features.htm

 
Wikipedia's Louisiana Purchase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/toc.html 
 
Louisiana Timeline
http://enlou.com/time/timelineindex.htm

 
 
  WebQuests  
The American Frontier

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/periods/amerfron.shtml
Go West, Young Man
http://bayless.mints.more.net/Miller/gowest/LessonTemplate.html
(research on the journey, journals, and presentation)
 

Building log homes
http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aalogcabina.htm

On the Trail with Lewis and Clark WebQuest
(exploring the Louisiana Purchase)
http://panorama.harrison.k12.co.us/mcdowell/Webpage/webquest.htm
(4 roles, group presentation/report)

 

Daniel Boone
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/boone.htm
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/boone.html
http://www.bocomo.org/dboone.htm

Westward Expansion WebQuest
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/new_eagle/staffpgs/Walt%20T/WEB_QUESTS/westward_expansion.htm
Corrected links:
Santa Fe Trail: http://www.ku.edu/heritage/research/sft/
Oregon Trail: http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
 

 

 

 

 

Western Movies

http://website.lineone.net/~braithwaitej/
http://www.filmsite.org/westernfilms.html

 

 
     

Images of American Indians in Hollywood

 

 

link to audio from Arizona museum exhibit
on images of Indians in Hollywood
http://www.knauradio.org/News/News.cfm?ID=283&c=17

   

images of Hollywood Indians – movie with voice over and discussion of stereotypes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374735/

   

images and critique of Indians in movies
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/HollywoodCowboys/indians/

   

 

   
     

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

Last updated: July 26, 2004
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