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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their Corps of Discovery trip to explore and map the Louisiana purchase for President Thomas Jefferson. It was the first expedition to explore the western portion of the continent, beginning on the Mississippi and going west through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
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Sacagawea, a Native American teenage girl helped them on their trip to the Pacific.
You can reach the US in either direction from the IDL. But the trip to any point in the US is shorter if you travel east from it.
The Lewis (Meriwether Lewis;29) and Clark (William Clark;33) expedition took exactly 2 years, 4 months, and 9 days. Sacajawea was with them 2 years of the trip. They thought it would only take till the fall (they started in march), but they didn't realize how big the land was
because they didnt have any tasks on the way back
because they didnt have any tasks on the way back
8,000 miles across the United States
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they went back on the specific ocean
The Lewis and Clark expedition return trip had to be timed perfectly so that the Missouri River would be free of ice. If they waited too long to began the return journey, they would have to endure another harsh winter on the Plains.
They didn't. Historians and map makers do this so you will be able to tell the routes apart.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their Corps of Discovery trip to explore and map the Louisiana purchase for President Thomas Jefferson. It was the first expedition to explore the western portion of the continent, beginning on the Mississippi and going west through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
Lewis and Clark passed through the Missouri river from August 20 to September 8, 1804 and then on the return trip from August 31 to September 4, 1806.
From May 23rd, 1806 to September 23rd 1806, 6 months
their trip began in Missouri
No, they stared the trip together