Lousiana purchase
President Thomas Jefferson asked Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark to explore the new territory in an effort to have a realistic assessment of the resources the land had to offer as well as knowing how the land itself was laid out and the usability of it.
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Meriwether Lewis.
President Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke to explore the Louisiana purchase or the new territory The U.S. had just bought.
Meriwether Lewis was the leader of an expedition into the Northern part of the Louisiana territory. The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.
An expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
What was in the new territory.
President Jefferson gave the job of exploring the Louisiana territory to Lewis and Clark. The western boundaries of the purchase were already being contested. Jefferson wanted to quickly get three missions going, aimed at mapping the new territory.
the Lewis and Clark expedition was the first overland expedition undertaken by the united state to the pacific coast and back
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and Zebulon Pike
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