The Louisiana Purchase

by Anne Pemberton

This page creates an adventure story starring your student or your child. He or she travels back in to the White House in 1803 to help Thomas Jefferson decide to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France.

Turn on your speakers to hear "Jefferson's March"

Directions to use the STORY FORM above to create this story:

1. Enter the name or nickname as you want it to appear in the story.
2. Click on the gender of your student or your child.
3. If you make a mistake, or want to start over, click on the "Reset" button.

If you want to read the story on the screen:

1. Click on the "Show the Story" button.
2. To return to this page, click the "Back" button in your browser.

If you want to print the story in a booklet:

1. Click the "Print the Story" button in the Story Form.
2. Click on "File" and then "Page Setup" in your browser.
3. Select "Landscape".
4. Delete any text in "Header" and "Footer" Spaces.
5. Click "OK".
6. Make sure your printer is turned on and has paper in it.
7. Click on "File" and then "Print" in your browser.
8. Click on "OK".
9. Fold each page in half with the print side out.
10. Wrap the cover around the open ends of the pages.
11. Staple.
12. To return to this page, click the "Back" button in your browser.

Music Credits

Background Music: "Jefferson's March" from "Martial Music in the Age of Lewis and Clark" by Randolph Cabell. Music synthesized by Randy Cabell, 2004. Music used by permission.

Illustration Credits

Illustrations used without permission, for educational use only. Some illustrations have been edited for this application.

Cover: New Oreans: Louisiana Purchase Treaty http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/cox_corr/w_exp/louisiana.htm
1. Red History Hat MSN clipart
2. White House: http://our.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/presidents.html
3. Thomas Jefferson: http://www.newgenevacenter.org/movers/enlightenment2.htm#Jefferson
4. mail: MSN clipart
5. Map of Louisiana Purchase: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/057_pra3.html
6. 18th Century Dining Room: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/057_pra3.html
7. Coffee Urn from Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/breakfast/home.html
8. Hands kneading bread dough: http://webs.wichita.edu/mschneegurt/biol103/lecture26/lecture26.html
9. ham: http://gourmet.sympatico.ca/meat/ham/ham.htm
10. muffins: http://leilako.com/recipes/western/05072002_1.html
11. napkin: MSN clipart
12. Glass of Milk: MSN clipart
13. Mockingbird in hand: http://www.tobago.hm/folk/bm001bird-s-z.htm
14. Constitution: http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/notetab/ssm/sample3/
15. TJ in office http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/057_pra3.html
16. James Madison: http://www.americanpresident.org/history/jamesmadison/biography/LifeBeforePresidency.common.shtml
17. Map of England: http://www.disa.atd.net/projects/global_fiber/imagedir/graphics.html
18. Treaty for Louisiana Purchase http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisiana.html
19. Cotton Harvest: http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?filename=NW0074
20. New Orleans Map: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/new_orleans_1798.jpg
21. The Capitol: http://www.hq.navy.mil/nnrpb/homennrpb.htm
22. Congress Meeting: http://www.hq.navy.mil/nnrpb/homennrpb.htm
23 TJ at desk: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/057_pra3.html
24 Mockingbird on post: http://huhtanen.org/favorite_digital_photos.htm
25 Old Presidential Seal: http://our.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/presidents.html
26 Eagle with Crossed Flags: http://www.usflag.org/toc.flags.html

 

Page created July 1, 2004. Anne Pemberton. Updated Sun, 20-Apr-2008 . AP.

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