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President Jefferson needed Lewis and Clark to map the Louisiana Territory and to explore it.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition, not long after he bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon.
Thomas Jefferson hired Lewis & Clark to explore the west.
President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson persuaded Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. He appointed Lewis as the commander of the Corps of Discovery and also selected William Clark as his second-in-command. The expedition, known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, aimed to map the territory, establish trade with Native American tribes, and find a practical route to the Pacific Ocean.
Jefferson
President Jefferson needed Lewis and Clark to map the Louisiana Territory and to explore it.
Thomas Jefferson was president at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. infact, he sent Lewis out to explore and Lewis chose Clark to come along. So, Thomas Jefferson had a huge influence on the expedition.
President Thomas Jefferson. It was 1803.
They were paid to do it by President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas jefferson
president Jefferson send Lewis and Clark on an expedition to the west because president Jefferson wanted to learn as much as he can he could about the land (Louisiana) he bought.
Thomas Jefferson
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition, not long after he bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon.
Thomas Jefferson on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
President Thomas Jefferson funded the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Before the expedition, Meriwether Lewis served as a personal secretary and aide to President Thomas Jefferson, while William Clark was a US Army officer who had experience in cartography and leading expeditions.