Sacajawea, Growing Pains, Chapter 2, Click2Biography

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>SACAJAWEA</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 2 - GROWING PAINS</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">In a secret message to Congress, <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/TJtest.GIF" target="_blank"><b>Thomas Jefferson</b></a> asked for money to explore <a href="http://www.nps.gov/lecl/whistoric%20map.jpg" target="_blank"><b>lands west</b></a> of the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. It was <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/14/16/14-1597a.gif" target="_blank"><b>January 18, 1803</b></a>. The sum the President <a href="http://www.vw.cc.va.us/vwhansd/HIS121/Jefferson's%20letter.gif" target="_blank"><b>requested</b></a>? A mere $2,500.</p> <p>The President had not yet made a deal with <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/napoleon.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Napoleon Bonaparte</b></a> for the "Louisiana Purchase." Although he had first <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/images/vc163p1.jpg" target="_blank"><b>asked</b></a> only for the town of New Orleans, so the United States could control the Mississippi as it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, Jefferson approached Napoleon at the right time. (The January 10, 1803 letter from Jefferson is to <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c17000/3c17100/3c17118r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>James Monroe</b></a>, newly appointed American minister to France.)</p> <p>The future French emperor needed money. He told Jefferson not only would he sell New Orleans, he’d sell all of the territory later known as <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/19/29/19-2867a.jpg" target="_blank"><b>the "Louisiana Purchase"</b></a> (once France took title to the land from Spain.) The President, who never ventured much farther west than Virginia’s <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/images/vc150.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Natural Bridge</b></a>, was delighted with the proposal.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="sacajawea_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="sacajawea_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>