Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Louisiana Purchase: An Offer We Couldn't Refuse
This lesson explores the circumstances surrounding the United States' acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. To research these topics students will integrate a variety of print and technology resources. Students will apply the results...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explore!
The Manifest Destiny of the 1800's began with Thomas Jefferson's dramatic political foresight of arranging the Louisiana Purchase. The stories of courage and determination from these lands began with the Lewis and Clark expedition. For...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Jefferson and the Turn of the 19th Century
Read about Thomas Jefferson and his most influential action as president, the Louisiana Purchase.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 1850 1874 Era | Lesson 1: The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created a territory that stretched all the way north from the southern boundary of present-day Nebraska to include all of the remaining lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
iCivics
I Civics: Louisiana Purchase (1803)
In this map-based lesson, students learn the historic importance of the Mississippi River, why the U.S. was determined to maintain access, and how the United States acquired the land that made up the Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Key Events in Louisiana
Third graders build their understanding of the content to explore when and why Louisiana changed hands so many times and how explorers, leaders, and the Louisiana Purchase contributed to Louisiana becoming a state.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: Louisiana Purchase
Third graders learn about the Louisiana Purchase and the characteristics of pioneers during this time period. While exploring literary and informational texts, including quotes from primary source documents, 3rd graders discuss elements...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: The Louisiana Purchase
Students answer questions to explain how major explorers and leaders contributed to the early development of Louisiana.
Google
Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 3: Louisiana Purchase: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text: Louisiana Purchase.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cole, the Oxbow
Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape paintings which embodied the beauty and grandeur of the American wilderness during the first half of the nineteenth century. When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
Eighth graders will explore via primary sources, the success of Lewis and Clark's expedition, and develop skills in analyzing documents and artifacts.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) presents the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a Constitutional issue. The lesson provided relates to the power granted to the President and the Senate to make treaties with foreign...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Grolier: Lewis and Clark: Louisiana Purchase
A summary of one of the largest land purchases in history, the Louisiana Purchase.
PBS
Pbs: Louisiana Purchase: April 30, 1803
This PBS site provides images of all pages of the original Louisiana Purchase, with a transcript.
PBS
Lewis and Clark: Archives: A Timeline of the Trip
An easy-to-follow timeline of Lewis and Clark and their journey to the West beginning with Jefferson's ideas of an expedition in 1806 to the death of William Clark in 1838.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Us History: Louisiana Purchase
Covers two topics related to the growth of the new United States - the Louisiana Purchase and the settling of the Great Plains. How the Louisiana Purchase came about as a result of a decision by Napoleon is explained. The Great Plains...
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Louisiana Purchase for Kids
Kids learn about the Louisiana Purchase which is when President Thomas Jefferson bought land west of the Mississippi from the French.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story; A New Nation
As America was forming its government, many problems needed to be solved. The Library of Congress tells you more about this time and some of its interesting people.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Lewis and Clark Expedition
Presents important information about the Lewis and Clark expedition with 20 interesting facts about this important event that occurred during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. The Lewis and Clark expedition helped by Sacagawea traveled...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Provides the history of the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase, the negotiations, the treaty, and the Constitution, together with numerous facts about the event.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Thomas Jefferson
Overview and biographical facts on the life of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father of the United States who drafted the Declaration of Independence and later became the third US President.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Louisiana Purchase
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Louisiana Purchase."
Curated OER
Perry Castaneda Map Collection: Admission of States and Territorial Acquisitions
Here's a map to show you when states were added to the Union. It also shows territories and when they were acquired.