THE AGE OF JEFFERSON

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

• Costed $15,000,000
• Land = 2x size of the US
• America bought it from France

LEWIS AND CLARK

• Two men who went on expedition for Jefferson
• Went on expedition to find info on land west of Mississippi R.
• They met Sacagawea and she was their guide

SECOND GREAT AWAKENING

• Helped people to give better religious types
• One author is William Cult who wrote poetry
• One artist is George Caleb Bingham
• One musician is Stephen C. Foster

SOUTH PLANTATIONS

• Farely spread apart
• Located on big and small plantations
• Size depended on slavery to farm

LIFE AS A SLAVE

• You Had no free time
• You were treated terribly
• Had to always do what their farmer said
• Little freedom to meet with there kind

LIFE IN NORTHERN CITIES

• Small industries and little work
• As time went on industries got bigger
• More and more industries came along
• More slaves to work in industries

LIFE IN THE WEST

• Very hard to live and rigorous
• Very wild land and animals
• Little to none crops growing because of waether