No, they had four goals. They wanted to, Map rivers, make friends with Native Americans, open up west to trade and look for northwest passage.
One of the goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition was not to discover a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
on the west coast, in Oregon at the end of the Columbia river
The one between the Missouri and the pacific. they found it in 1806.
Even before the Lewis and Clark expedition, people already knew that the Pacific Ocean existed. The mission of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to find an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, they expected to find the Pacific, but they did not expect the various animal and native encounters along the way.
Lewis and Clark were the two explorers that led the expedition over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific.
Lewis and Clark did not discover the Pacific Ocean, they knew it existed long before their expedition. They were in fact assigned to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory and find the "easiest way" to the Pacific. They certainly weren't looking for a "Northwest Passage."
Lewis and Clark are famous for what they did because they were sent out to unknown land and set to explore and discover things like water routes to the pacific ocean and write a description of the territory
Lewis and Clark reached the pacific ocean in November 15 1805
Lewis and Clark journeyed to the pacific ocean
Assisting the Lewis and Clark expedition. She helped them on their expedition to discover new western lands and a route to the Pacific ocean.
Because at the time they were named,nothing in the west was named after Lewis and Clark.
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