President Thomas Jefferson
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explorers who explore the Louisiana purchase for president Thomas Jefferson
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.
The United States. Our third President - Jefferson, bought the Louisiana Purchase from France and sent Lewis and Clark to explore the new land.
President Jefferson needed Lewis and Clark to map the Louisiana Territory and to explore it.
President Thomas Jefferson
Meriwether Lewis.
He commissioned Lewis and Clark to explore it and make a report on what they found there.
Thomas Jefferson was the President at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. He also sent Lewis and Clark to explore the limits of the purchase.
Lewis & Clark were sent out by the president Jefferson, to explore the newly purchased Louisiana
President Thomas Jefferson sent them to explore the "Louisiana Purchase" as they called it.
Thomas Jefferson, in 1803.
Lewis and Clark
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They were tasked to undergo the expedition by President Jefferson, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase. The land deal with France doubled the territory now owned by the US, and someone needed to go see what was out there.