How did the fur trade in the Louisiana and Texas Territories affect the relationships between different Native American tribes and between tribes and European settlers? Make connections to the strategic importance of river systems in the Louisiana and Texas Territories trade networks during early American expansion. How did control over these waterways influence military, trade, and settlement patterns?
Please use the attached primary sources and textbook.
- Hine, Chapters 4 and 5
Primary Sources
- Lewis, Merriwether and William Clark. Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. opens in a new tab
- Read entries for the following dates: August 3, 1804; Sept. 25, 1804; April 29, 1805; June 13, 1805; August 17, 1805; Nov. 7, 1805
- “The Louisiana Purchase,” 1803. opens in a new tab
- United States Congress. “Northwest Ordinance” (1787).