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Group 5 "Circa 1803 "

You will be reading an article titled "Circa 1803" and then collaborating with your group to complete a graphic organizer.
 * Group 1 || Group 2 || Group 3 || Group 4 || Group 5 ||
 * Tyiana || Billy || Steven || David || Sam ||
 * Justin || Clare || Kayla || Roula || Lexy ||
 * Gay || Weiner || Sophie || Grace || Sebastian ||
 * Marlena || Shannon || Corey || Kevin || Maia ||
 * Laura || Jarek || Alec || Matt || Sarah ||

At PBS Online's Lewis and Clark Web site [|(http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/),] read the section entitled "Circa 1803." Fill in the chart below to describe the lifestyle, geographical knowledge, and rumors about the Western part of the North American continent at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Graphic organizer:

 || Rumors about the west at this time || Many owned slaves and hosted many balls and social or political events. -Sarah || European mapmakers drew Califorina as an island. Not much as known about the west of the Mississippi. Maps were inaccurate and books were written by people who have never seen the area. Sarah || Rumors said that unicorns, seven foot tall beavers, gargantuan woolly mastodons, friendly, slim-wasted buffalo inhabited the area. Sarah ||  On their enormous estates, they led lives of elegance and enlightenment,  hosting social and politcal parties while entertaining people with balls.  -Lexy Frey || Jefferson had many thoughts about the unknown areas westward  Maps were not very accurate and book were written by people who had no idea what they were talking about!  -Lexy Frey || * These were all the ideas of things that inhabited the area: -Lexy Frey ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Lifestyle in 1803 (especially for Lewis and Clark) || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Geographical knowledge of the continent <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 132%; text-align: center;">
 * "Virginia gentlemen” lived in vast estates and plantations.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">“Virginia gentlemen” lived a spoiledlifestyle.
 * unicorns
 * 7 ft tall beavers
 * gargantuan woolly mastodons
 * slim-wasted buffalo
 * "Virginia gentlemen" lived a distinct lifestyle. They led lives of refinement and enlightenment, hosting balls and dinners to discuss many important things.

-Maia Litz || "Virginia Gentlemen" lived a very pristine or fancy life style living in enormous mansions and throwing parties to discuss things such as politics, laws and human rights. Even though many of them discussed how we shouldn't own slaves simply so that they can do all their work, almost all of them owned one or two slaves themselves!

- Sebastian || Unicorns, Seven foot tall beavers, gargantuan woolly mastodons, and slim waised buffalo were rumors about the west at this time.

-Maia Litz ||
 * It is nothing like it would of been today! Slaves were owned, “Virginia gentlemen” ascribed to a distinct lifestyle. On their vast estates, they led lives of refinement and enlightenment, hosting balls and dinners or discussing politics, philosophy and religion.

-Sam || Jefferson was very intrested about the west because there was no knowlege at the time! He decided to send Lewis and Clark on a expidition to see what it was like! At the time the only thing that the US knew about was where they lived! Most of the things that could of helped find info didn't!

-Sam || Some of the rumors going on at this time were:

-Unicorns -7 foot tall beavers -gargantuan wooly mastodons slim wasted buffalo

-Sam Hunt ||
 * Many of the men that lived around louis and clark were known as "Virginia Gentlemen".These men lived very pristine lives and many if not all of them lived in very large mansions and were not used to "living off of the land". Thats why it was so hard for Louis and Clark to find people who could journey with them into the western unknown land that had just been bought from Napolean Bonaparte and France

-Sebastian || Maps back then were very inaccurate. They drew maps depicting California as an island, and the Rocky mountains looked very narrow.

-Maia Litz ||  ||