...Lewis and Clark is one of the most know people in American history by their journey and discoveries. Lewis and Clark made one of the biggest journeys in America’s history. America bought the Louisiana Purchase from france. At that moment Lewis and Clark's big journey was just about to begin. They had to bring a lot of supplies and write everything they see in their journal according to how they did it. They had to record everything they did and the way they moved in the land in very specific words. Lewis and Clark came from very different jobs, but had very similar abilities. Meriwether Lewis worked for Thomas Jefferson as a private secretary in the year of 1801. Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774 (“National”.). Jefferson pick Lewis...
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...Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Lewis and Clark Expedition in Montana William Clark in December 1803 built the River Dubois Camp on the along river Wood. The camp was set at Rivers Missouri’s and Mississippi’s confluence in Missouri just north of St. Louis. In addition, the camp was at just across River Dubois in Illinois. Clark took up the training of the severally different volunteer men who put themselves forward to undertake the expedition into the Pacific. Therefore, William Clark was keen to make an efficient and useful team from the goons, savages laypeople who had volunteered (Kern, 672). This team was identified as the Corps of Discovery, a sentry sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the source of the river and possible navigation into the Pacific. This paper trails Clark and Lewis’ expedition in Montana exploring the various Indian wars and the twist and confusing meander of the river. The Corps of Discovery constituted of strangers to each other aged differently but with an average age of 27. Nonetheless, the team was eager to undertake the presidential decree with zeal, zest and passion. John Shields aged 35 was the oldest of the Corps of Discovery whereas 17 year old George Shannon was the youngest (Lewis and William, 38). Therefore, Clark had to balance his command as he directed the team into building cabins and forts from logs. Clark further taught the team information marching, effective shooting of targets as a team as well as the use of weapons...
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...James Madison to refuse. The offer was taken back to the President and approved by Congress with a vote of twenty-four to seven. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, which was quickly becoming overcrowded. But since this region had yet to be explored no one knew what exactly they had gotten themselves into. And this would be how history arrived at the Corps of Discovery, and to the Lewis & Clark Expedition. After watching a PBS documentary about Lewis & Clark, (with my dad, who was so excited to share this with me) I chose to summarize the portion of the expedition that traveled over the Rockies. Mainly because my father’s family is from the Missoula, Montana area, my father was born in Tarkio, Montana. My mother was born in Hollywood, Idaho. She spent her childhood in the Kamiah, Weippe and Lapwai, Idaho area. I was also born in Pullman, Washington, and raised in Medical Lake, Washington. My family history is deeply entwined in the region. The expedition prior to the fall of 1805 had been easy in comparison to what lie ahead for Lewis & Clark. It seems as though most of their provisions had been used up during their winter stay in North Dakota and their journey across the Great Plains. They also buried some of their stockpile, to ensure they had it for the return trip. It is in Western Montana that the group would enter into geography they had never seen or explored. These indeed were important times. How exciting it must have been to be part...
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...Chapter 8: Lewis and Clark President Thomas Jefferson formed an expedition in which he put is secretary, Meriwether Lewis, in charge. This expedition was put into place to explore the Missouri River and find a good water route towards the Pacific. If a water route was found, the economy would benefit as trade with China would boost. Second in command on this expedition was William Clark. Lewis and Clark led approximately fifty men on the journey. Once they got into their expedition, they hired an interpreter and a guide who went by the name of Toussaint Charboneau. His wife had accompanied them on the trip after recently giving birth to a baby boy. Throughout this expedition, Jefferson wanted to place American sovereignty in the tribes throughout...
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...Lewis and Clark Expedition Imagine going from nice spring weather to strong winds and freezing cold winters two times. This is what Meriwether Lewis and William Clark went tough on their two year expedition searching for the Northwest passage. Now, while you might think they had it easy, Lewis, Clark and their expedition crew went through many challenges while exploring the new land. From finding food to eat, to making alliances with different indian tribes, this journey was anything but easy. The Lewis and Clark expedition is very important to the US for many many reasons. Thomas Jefferson was determined to find this so called “Northwest Passage.” The Northwest Passage was a series of rivers that somehow connected to the Pacific Ocean....
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...Lewis and Clark started their expedition May 14, 1804 and ended September 23, 1806. The reason Lewis and Clark went on the expedition was to explore and find an all water route west. The United States just doubled their land a year before with the Louisiana purchase . They could finally move west since the land was all theirs. President Thomas Jefferson let Lewis and Clark explore westward. He assigned them to lead an expedition with 45 other men. Clark was the main leader because Thomas Jefferson only sent Lewis so he could study things like plants, animals, and Indian tribes. He was a scientist so it made sense that he was interested in the agricultural part of the expedition. The expedition began right on the border of Illinois and St.Louis....
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...Lewis and Clark Expedition: Unexplored Discoveries Chosen by Thomas Jefferson was his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis and chosen by Lewis was William Clark. Both men who endowed such capacity as frontiersmen. Lewis and Clark, both Captains of the Expedition created a diverse military Corps of Discovery who would travel with them on their two-year journey to the great ocean. In the summer of 1804, the explorers would travel upstream, northwest on the Missouri River to Fort Mandan, a trading post, where Corps of Discovery set up camp, wintered, and prepared for their journey to the Pacific. In Spring of 1805, is when Lewis and Clark set out on their journey. Soon Lewis and Clark would encounter their first Indian tribe, as well as meeting...
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...Lewis and Clark's Expedition In 1803 Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West. Jefferson believed that there were many new things to discover out west, such as wooly mammoths, volcanoes, and a mountain of pure salt awaiting them. They had no clue of the future discoveries that were going to be made on their expedition. They had been preparing for their expedition at their St. Louis-area camp since Fall of 1803. On May 20th, 1804, William Clark and nearly four dozen other men met Meriwether Lewis to begin the journey. The Lewis and Clark expedition, which was also known as "the Corps of Discovery", began making its way up the Missouri River...
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...Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery journey from The Pacific Ocean and back from 1803 through 1806 mapped the lands, and encountered discoveries and the people of the western land of the United States. After President Thomas Jefferson purchase of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803, Jefferson interest of knowing what seeked upon the lands increased and because of this he asked Lewis, his private secretary, to gather information about the plants, animals, climate and the native people of the region. Lewis accepted the offer and decided for his old friend William Clark to accompany him as co-commander of the expedition. Lewis picks up William Clark and his other recruits along the way as he travels down the Ohio River. By the fall/winter of 1803, Lewis and Clark establishes Camp Wood, their winter camp for their Corps of Discovery, and later heads on to St. Louis. From there their expedition began their journey in May 1804....
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...Remember “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything's different.” says Lewis.Throughout the expedition of Lewis and Clark, they have had an amazing discovery. It all happened in 1802… Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea told indians that they owned the land now many forks in the road- followed waterfall traveling west on Missouri River.The expedition took place in the Interior or the North America to the Pacific on the Missouri River. Thomas Jefferson wanted to find the Pacific Ocean and to see if the land is any good so he told Lewis and Clark to find it. That’s when they came upon Sacagawea. During the expedition, Lewis came upon a Black-Tailed Prairie Dog. Lewis encountered the Prairie Dog near Present-Day Fort Randall Dam. The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog looked like it had pinkish-brownish above; whitish or buffy white below. It was slim, haired tail with a black tip. Short,rounded ears with big black eyes. They were fascinated about how they made their own villages underground. While Sacagawea, Lewis, and Clark were trying to find the Pacific, Lewis was determined about finding new things.Lewis saw tons...
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...Meriwether Lewis was a secretary to his friend President Jefferson and William Clark was in the military just before the expedition. Before that Clark entered the militia at the age of nineteen then entered the U.S. Military. Lewis was a captain in the military and served in a number of campaigns against native Americans. Next they both became leaders of the expedition across the West of North America. President Jefferson was planning this expedition well before he made the Louisiana purchase. After he made the purchase he wanted to know exactly what he had bought. Therefore he had Lewis, Clark and thirty-one others go on this expedition. President Jefferson was hoping they would find a northwest passage for a trade route. However they did not find one instead they provided valuable information about the west and that influenced people to move....
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...By: Jay H. Buckley 12-15-14 www.britannic.com Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lieut William Clark led a military expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest from 1804 to 1806. January 18, 1803 Thomas Jefferson sent a message to congress asking for $2,500 to send an officer and soldiers to explore the Missouri River and try to make contact with the Native Americans and expand the fur trade. Lewis bought weapons at Harpers Ferry. Virginia supervised the making of a 55-foot keelboat, and smaller vessels, and designing an iron framed boat that was made for the trip. His co-commander Clark, who had been in the government's battle as a military superior for the Northwest Indian Federation in the 1790’s. The secretary of war denied Lewis request of a shared command, so Lewis and Clark chose to address another captain to hide the fact from the other members. In this Clark recruited men in Kentucky, they oversaw their training that winter at Camp River Dubois in Illinois, and served as the principal waterman and cartographer....
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...Lewis and Clark Expedition is an important journey in American history. It is a journey to the Pacific Ocean and back. It is also known as Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery . It was commissioned by president Thomas Jefferson after the purchases of Louisiana. Let’s talk about brief history of Louisiana. After signing peace treaty with United States Napoleon Bonaparte, a consul of the Republic of France acquired Louisiana from Spain by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso and held the title to the Mississippi river and the part of New Orleans. Later he planned to develop a commercial bloc in the Caribbean basin in order to link West Indian Islands of Guadalupe, Martinique and Saint Dominque with Louisiana. This would help France...
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...The Life of Sacagawea Native American explorer, Sacagawea had an interesting life. She is most known for being the only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition, but there was much more to her life than that. With many bumps in the road, Sacagawea’s life was a journey. In 1788, daughter of Shoshone chief, was born in Lemhi County, Idaho. Around age 12, a Hidatsa raiding party captured Sacagawea near the Missouri River’s headwaters. She was then purchased from the raiding party by a French Canadian fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau. Around 1804, she became one of his wives. In 1805, at age 17, she had her first child with him in February. His name was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. Lewis and Clark passed through what is now North Dakota in 1805 during their expedition, Sacagawea and Toussaint joined their journey....
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...I just got back from an amazing trip as part of the Corps of Discovery along with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned us on a fact finding mission across the Louisiana territory. We were to inform the Native Americans that the United States now controls this land. We also collected information about plants, animals, landscapes, and surroundings. We left in May of 1804 and returned in September of 1806 and were gone for two years, four months. I first witnessed Tower Rock on July 16, 1805. It was very tall and steep with dark black cliffs. We stumbled along the landscape ending Great Plains and bringing unknown terrain of the Rocky Mountains. We just completed the Great Falls Portage the day before. Missouri River entered the Big Belt Canyon and on the west side was a trail we followed. Lewis described it as a large rock at which stands at 400 feet and gave a beautiful view of immense herds of buffalo in the plains below. I also saw the American badger on February 6, 1804 at Camp Dubois. We encountered the badger and Joseph fields killed it and brought it back. Clark thought it looked like a dogs head and had short ears and tail like groundhogs but longer and lighter. The badger lives in open grasslands and eats mice, squirrels and groundhogs. We used the squirrels and groundhogs. We used the...
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