who appointed lewis and clark to the expedition
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Meriwether Lewis On April 1, 1801, Lewis was appointed as an aide by President Thomas Jefferson, whom he knew through Virginia society in Albemarle County. Lewis resided in the presidential mansion, and frequently conversed with various prominent figures in politics, the arts and other circles.
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Corps of Discovery The Corps of Discovery was a specially-established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806.ass (1771–1870) was born in Pennsylvania. He joined the U.S. Army in 1799 where he served in a volunteer Ranger unit. Gass was recruited at Fort Kaskaskia from a company of the 1st Infantry Regiment led by Captain Russell Bissell. His skill as a carpenter was of great value to the expedition.
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- Follow the expedition via journal entries and historical photos, drawings, and maps. In 1803 Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West. He believed woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and a mountain of pure salt awaited them.
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The Corps of Discovery The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May 1804, from near St. Louis making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.he expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark.
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- LEWIS AND CLARK. In the year 1803, Nebraska was sold by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. It was sold as part of the great country between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, all of which was then called Louisiana and owned by France.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Now the journey was even more important. Lewis and his party would be exploring land that belonged to the United States. Armed with Jefferson's letter of instructions, Lewis traveled to Pittsburgh and then set out on the Ohio River. At Clarksville, in present-day Indiana, he met up with William Clark. They packed the keelboat, which Lewis had designed, and two pirogues (canoe-like boats) with supplies and headed downriver.
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- Lewis recruited his friend William Clark to share equally in the command of the expedition, as well as a force of over 40 men. The members of the Corps of Discovery were soldiers, but their purpose was peaceful -- exploration, diplomacy, and science.
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Statue at Lewis & Clark College honors York, the slave who accompanied expedition View full size Motoya Nakamura, The Oregonian Zoe, Owen and Hana Yamaguchi (from left) play on the sculpture of York on Saturday at Lewis & Clark College. York was a slave on the Lewis & Clark expedition. Charles Neal, initiated the project at the college. He was joined by Betty and Don Balmer and artist Alison Saar.
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Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends Both Lewis and Clark were generously rewarded for their services, each receiving large parcels of land and double pay. President Jefferson appointed Lewis governor of the Territory of Upper Louisiana in March 1807; inexplicably, Lewis waited a year before going to St. Louis to take up his new duties. Once there, he got himself into debt by buying land and in preparing the expedition journals for publication.
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What Lewis and Clark Ate Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, better known as Lewis and Clark, led one of the most famous expeditions in American history. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery Expedition was one of the earliest exploratory missions to the Pacific Coast.
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Start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Lewis had been personal assistant to President Thomas Jefferson, who authorised the expedition to find a water route through the Rocky Mountains to the west coast, make friendly contact with the native Indians and report on matters of scientific interest.
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- Two months after the expedition ended, in November of 1806, Lewis and Clark were traveling east with Sheheke and other Indians. William Clark stopped for a few weeks in Virginia, however, to visit the girl he hoped to someday marry.
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William Clark Biography Lewis and Clark Expedition. U.S. soldier and explorer William Clark was born on August 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Virginia. A younger brother to Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark, William Clark entered the military at the age of 19. First he served in the militia and then entered the U.S. Army. Clark became friends with Meriwether Lewis while the two served together in 1795.
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21b. Exploration: Lewis and Clark Exploration: Lewis and Clark. Originally named the Corps of Discovery, the 1803 expedition led by Lewis and Clark came in contact with people and places never before seen, and returned with stories that Americans in the East could hardly believe. On this map, the outbound leg of the expedition is red and the inbound route is blue.
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Meriwether Lewisâ Mysterious Death He and Clark had finished their expedition three years earlier; Lewis, who was by then a governor of the large swath of land that constituted the Upper Louisiana Territory, was on his way to Washington, D.C. to settle financial matters.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Long before he became the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson had dreamed of sending explorers across North America. When Jefferson took office in 1801, most of the United States population lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Louisiana Purchase The Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Louisiana Purchase. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a government-sponsored expedition to explore the vast wilderness of the west soon after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase. The team, also known as the Corps of Discovery, left St. Louis, Missouri in 1804 and returned to the same spot in 1806.
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Lewis and Clark Pass (Montana) The pass was crossed by Meriwether Lewis on July 7, 1806, on the return leg of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with a party of nine men and his dog Seaman. The pass was named for the expedition's two leaders–Lewis and William Clark.
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The Corps of Discovery On April 7, 1805, Lewis and Clark sent the keelboat back to St. Louis with an extensive collection of zoological, botanical, and ethnological specimens as well as letters, reports, dispatches, and maps. Members of the expedition who had caused problems were sent back as well.
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F Sacajawea helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition. Sacagawea was  16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined  the Lewis and Clark expedition on Nove … mber 4, 1804.Later study  suggests that through most of the journey she was not so much a  guide as a mediator.aking the world better, one answer at a time. Sacajawea is a hero because she was an interpreter for Louis and Clark and she helped them get food and supplies from the Indians, and she did it all with her papoose (her baby) on her back.
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The Corps of Discovery The expedition's goal as stated by President Jefferson was to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it as, by its course & communication with the water of the Pacific ocean may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce..o in that same year, Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery under the command of his trusted private secretary, Meriwether Lewis. Besides seeking the Northwest Passage, Lewis was to map the new territory, assess its natural resources, and make contact with its inhabitants, befriending them if possible.
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Section 2: The Louisiana Purchase Assessment What areas did the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Pike expedition explore? Lewis and Clark explored the Northern part of the Louisiana Purchase, traveling up the Missouri River, and Pike explored the southern half, looking for the start of the Red River. Why were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark chosen to lead the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase? Lewis was chosen because of his experience as a leader, and Clark was chosen for his mapmaking skills.
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- Lewis and Clark’s expedition is followed by an expedition led by Zebulon M. Pike in 1806. This expedition was the brainchild of General James Wilkinson, a newly appointed governor of the Louisiana Territory.
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Social Studies Chapter 8 Review A Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as a guide and interpreter Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) Army captain appointed by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory and lands west to the Pacific Ocean William Clark (1770-1838) American soldier and friend of Meriwether Lewis, he was invited to explore the Louisiana Purchase and joined what became known as the Lewis and Clark expedition. Aaron Burr 3rd Vice President of the United States who served under President Thomas Jefferson; tied Jefferson for electoral votes in the election of 1800
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William Clark William Clark. (1770-1838) Forever linked to the epic achievements of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, William Clark returned from that adventure to become a respected administrator of Indian affairs during the early years of American expansion into the West.
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William Clark Biography In 1803, Clark received a letter from his old friend Lewis, inviting him to share command of an expedition of the lands west of the Mississippi River. The legendary journey began the following May in St. Louis, Missouri.