The Louisiana Purchase

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Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): Abc-Clio Inc
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Summary

Published in celebration of the Purchase's bicentennial, this resource offers a multifaceted view of a watershed American event.

Author Biography

Junius P. Rodriguez is an associate professor of history at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Maps
xxix
Adams, John Quincy
1(2)
Addington, Henry, First Viscount Sidmouth
3(1)
Adet, Pierre Auguste
4(1)
Amana Colonies
5(1)
American Fur Company
6(1)
American Insurance Co. v. Canter
7(1)
Ames, Fisher
7(1)
Amiens, Peace of
8(1)
Aranjuez, Convention of
9(1)
Arapaho
10(1)
Arikara
10(2)
Arkansas
12(2)
Arkansas Post
14(1)
Armstrong, Fort
14(2)
Armstrong, John
16(1)
Ashley, William Henry
17(1)
Assiniboine
17(2)
Astor, John Jacob
19(1)
Atkinson, Fort
20(1)
Audubon, John James
21(2)
Badlands
23(1)
Barbe-Marbois, Francois, Marquis de
24(1)
Baring Brothers
25(1)
Bastrop, Baron de
26(1)
Becknell, William
27(1)
Beckwourth, James
28(1)
Bellefontaine, Fort
29(1)
Benton, Thomas Hart
30(1)
Bent's Fort
31(1)
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste
32(1)
Bingham, George Caleb
32(1)
Bison
33(1)
Black Hawk
34(2)
Black Hawk Purchase
36(1)
Black Hawk War
36(2)
Black Hills
38(1)
Blackfoot
39(1)
Bodmer, Charles
40(1)
Bonaparte, Joseph
41(1)
Bonaparte, Lucien
42(1)
Bonaparte, Napoleon
43(2)
Bonneville, Benjamin L. E.
45(1)
Boone, Daniel
46(1)
Bore, Jean Etienne
47(1)
Breckinridge, John
48(1)
Bridger, Fort
49(2)
Bridger, James
51(1)
Buffalo Soldiers
51(2)
Burr, Aaron
53(2)
Cabot, George
55(1)
Cajuns
56(1)
Cameahwait
57(1)
Camino Real, El
58(1)
Carondelet, Louis Franciso Hector de
58(1)
Carson, Christopher ``Kit''
59(1)
Cartography
60(1)
Casa-Calvo, Sebastian Calvo de La Puerta y O'Farrill, Marques de
61(2)
Caspar, Fort
63(1)
Catlin, George
63(1)
Charbonneau, Toussaint
64(1)
Charles IV
65(1)
Chartres, Fort de
66(1)
Cheyenne
67(1)
Chimney Rock
68(1)
Chouteau, Rene Auguste
69(1)
Claiborne, William Charles Cole
70(1)
Clark, Daniel
71(1)
Clark, Fort
72(1)
Clark, George Rogers
73(1)
Clark, William
74(2)
Clinton, George
76(1)
Collot, Georges Henri Victor
77(1)
Colony for Freed Slaves
78(1)
Colorado
79(2)
Colter, John
81(1)
Comanche
82(1)
Constitution of the United States
83(2)
Convention of 1818
85(1)
Cordero y Bustamente, Manuel Antonio
86(1)
Corps of Discovery
86(1)
Council Bluffs, Iowa
87(1)
Coureurs de Bois
88(1)
Cree
89(1)
Creoles
90(1)
Crow
91(2)
Dearborn, Henry
93(1)
de Decres, Denis Duc
94(1)
Desert, State of
94(1)
Diplomacy of the Louisiana Purchase
95(3)
Dry Farming
98(1)
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel
98(2)
Duane, William
100(1)
Dunbar-Hunter Expedition
100(3)
Essex Junto
103(2)
Family Compact
105(1)
Federalist Party
106(1)
Fernando, Duke of Parma
107(1)
Fitzpatrick, Thomas
108(1)
Flathead
109(1)
Flora of the Louisiana Purchase
110(2)
Floyd, Charles
112(1)
Fontainebleau, Treaty of
112(1)
Fox
113(1)
Fredonian Rebellion
114(1)
Free Soil Party
115(1)
Freeman Expedition
116(1)
French and Indian War
117(2)
Fur Trapping
119(2)
Gallatin, Albert
121(1)
Gardoqui, Diego Maria de
122(1)
Gateway Arch
123(1)
Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel
124(1)
Genet, Edmond Charles
125(1)
Gibson, Fort
126(1)
Godoy, Manuel de
127(1)
Graduation Act
128(1)
Great American Desert
129(1)
Griffin, Thomas
130(1)
Griswold, Roger
131(1)
Gros Ventre
132(1)
Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
133(2)
Haiti
135(1)
Hamilton, Alexander
136(1)
Herrera, Simon de
137(1)
Hidatsa
138(1)
Historiography of the Louisiana Purchase
139(1)
Homestead Act
140(3)
Hope and Company
143(1)
Hudson's Bay Company
143(2)
Hunt, Wilson Price
145(2)
Independence Rock
147(1)
Indian Removal
147(2)
Indian Territory
149(2)
International Law and the Louisiana Purchase Treaty
151(1)
Iowa
152(2)
Ioway
154(1)
Irujo, Carlos Martinez de (Marquis de Casa Irujo)
154(1)
Isle of Orleans
155(2)
Jay-Gardoqui Negotiations
157(1)
jay's Treaty
158(2)
Jefferson, Thomas
160(2)
Jesup, Fort
162(1)
Jones, Evan
163(2)
Kansas
165(3)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
168(1)
Kaskaskia
169(1)
Kaw
169(1)
Kearny, Fort
170(1)
Kickapoo
171(1)
King, Rufus
172(1)
King-Hawkesbury Treaty
173(1)
Kiowa
174(3)
Lafitte, Jean
177(1)
Land Law of 1820
178(1)
Land Speculation
179(1)
Laramie, Fort
180(1)
Laussat, Pierre Clement de
181(1)
Leavenworth, Fort
182(1)
Leclerc, Charles-Victor-Emmanuel
182(1)
Ledyard, John
183(1)
Lewis, Meriwether
184(2)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
186(4)
Lincoln, Levi
190(1)
Lisa, Manuel
191(1)
Literature, the Louisiana Purchase in
192(1)
Livingston, Edward
193(1)
Livingston, Robert R.
194(2)
Long, James
196(1)
Long, Stephen Harriman
197(1)
Long (Stephen Harriman) Expedition
198(1)
Loose Construction of the U.S. Constitution
199(1)
Los Adaes
199(1)
Louisiana Land Law of 1804
200(1)
Louisiana Memorial
201(1)
Louisiana Purchase International Exposition
202(2)
L'Ouverture, Toussaint
204(2)
Luneville, Treaty of
206(3)
Macomb, Fort
209(1)
Madison, James
209(2)
Magruder, Allan Bowie
211(1)
Mandan
212(3)
Mandan, Fort
215(1)
Manifest Destiny
216(2)
Marshall, John
218(1)
Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philipp zu Wied-Neuwied
219(1)
McClallen, John
220(1)
McKean, Thomas
221(1)
McLoughlin, John
221(1)
Mesabi Range
222(1)
Michaux, Andre
223(1)
Minnesota
224(2)
Mississippi River
226(1)
Missouri
227(1)
Missouri Compromise
228(1)
Missouri Fur Company
229(1)
Monroe, James
230(1)
Montana
231(2)
Morales, Juan Ventura
233(1)
Mormon Road
234(1)
Mortefontaine, Convention of
235(1)
Mountain Men
236(2)
Mouths of the Mississippi River
238(1)
Murray, Hugh
239(2)
Nacogdoches
241(1)
Natchez Trace
241(1)
Natchitoches
242(1)
Nebraska
243(2)
Neutral Ground
245(1)
New Madrid Earthquakes
246(1)
New Mexico
247(1)
New Orleans
248(2)
New Orleans, Battle of
250(2)
Newspapers (International) and the Louisiana Purchase
252(1)
Newspapers (U.S.) and the Louisiana Purchase
253(1)
Nolan, Philip
254(1)
Nootka Sound Crisis
255(1)
North Dakota
256(1)
Nuttall, Thomas
257(2)
Oglala Sioux
259(1)
Ojibwa
260(1)
Oklahoma
261(2)
Oregon Country
263(2)
Oregon Trail
265(2)
Orleans, Territory of
267(2)
Osage
269(1)
Osage, Fort
270(1)
Paine, Thomas
271(1)
Paris, Treaty of
272(1)
Pawnee
273(1)
Pichon, Louis-Andre
274(1)
Pickering, Timothy
275(1)
Pike Expedition (1805-1806)
276(1)
Pike Expedition (1806-1807)
277(1)
Pike, Fort
277(1)
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
278(2)
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
280(1)
Pinckney, Thomas
281(1)
Ponca
282(1)
Pontalba, Joseph Xavier de
283(1)
Popular Sovereignty
284(1)
Portage des Sioux, Treaty of
285(1)
Potawatomi
286(1)
Preemption Act
286(3)
Quapaw
289(2)
Randolph, John
291(1)
Relf, Richard
292(1)
Rendezvous System
292(2)
Right of Deposit
294(1)
Riley, Fort
294(1)
Rocky Mountain Fur Company
295(1)
Rocky Mountains
296(2)
Ross, James
298(1)
Rutledge, John
299(2)
Sac and Fox
301(1)
Sacagawea
302(1)
Saint Genevieve
303(1)
Saint Louis
304(1)
San Ildefonso, Treaty of
305(2)
San Lorenzo, Treaty of
307(1)
Sand Hills
308(1)
Santa Fe Trail
309(1)
Santee Sioux
309(1)
Sauk
310(2)
Scott, Fort
312(1)
Sedella, Antonio de
313(1)
Seventh Congress
313(1)
Shoshoni
314(2)
Sibley, John
316(1)
Slavery
317(2)
Smith, Fort
319(1)
Smith, Jedediah Strong
320(1)
Snelling, Fort
320(1)
South Dakota
321(2)
South Pass
323(1)
Squatter's Rights
324(1)
Stoddard, Amos
325(2)
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de
327(1)
Tallmadge Amendment
328(1)
Taos
329(1)
Taylor Amendment
329(1)
Tertium Quids
330(1)
Texas
331(1)
Textbooks: the Louisiana Purchase in High School Textbooks
332(2)
36 Degrees 30 Minutes North Latitude
334(1)
Towson, Fort
334(1)
Tracy, Uriah
335(1)
Transcontinental Treaty
336(2)
Tucker, St. George
338(1)
Turner, Frederick Jackson
339(1)
Tuscany
340(5)
Valle, Jean-Baptiste
345(1)
Victor, Claude Perrin
345(2)
War Hawks
347(1)
War of 1812
347

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