In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a tact through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana region from France. After the Louisiana Purchase a treaty was made where Jefferson started an investigation of the recently obtained land and the domain past the "rocky mountains" in the West.
Jefferson’s main vision and wish was to make a new America that commanded the trade routes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. With so doing this forced England, France, and Spain out of North America. Jefferson had previously tried this expedition but was unsuccessful three times. Jefferson was desperate to make his plan successful and set out to find two strong and courageous men to conqueror the expedition.
Jefferson’s first pick was Meriwether Lewis. Lewis was a well-known explorer and soldier from Virginia. He served in the state militia and then later joined the military and received the rank as Captain. In 1801, Jefferson asked Lewis to be his own secretary. Lewis requested the assistance of William Clark, who served with Lewis in the military. Clark was the younger brother to the Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. Clark, first also served in the militia and then entered the US Army along with Lewis. Clark received a letter from Lewis in 1803 inviting him to join the expedition …show more content…
This water connection would unite the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River framework, in this manner giving the new western area access to port markets out of the Gulf of Mexico and to eastern urban areas along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries. At the time, American and European adventurers had just infiltrated what might turn out to be every end of the Lewis and Clark Trail up the Missouri a few miles to the trapper central command at Fort Mandan and up the Columbia a tad over a hundred miles to a point a little past present-day Portland,
Jefferson’s main vision and wish was to make a new America that commanded the trade routes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. With so doing this forced England, France, and Spain out of North America. Jefferson had previously tried this expedition but was unsuccessful three times. Jefferson was desperate to make his plan successful and set out to find two strong and courageous men to conqueror the expedition.
Jefferson’s first pick was Meriwether Lewis. Lewis was a well-known explorer and soldier from Virginia. He served in the state militia and then later joined the military and received the rank as Captain. In 1801, Jefferson asked Lewis to be his own secretary. Lewis requested the assistance of William Clark, who served with Lewis in the military. Clark was the younger brother to the Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. Clark, first also served in the militia and then entered the US Army along with Lewis. Clark received a letter from Lewis in 1803 inviting him to join the expedition …show more content…
This water connection would unite the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River framework, in this manner giving the new western area access to port markets out of the Gulf of Mexico and to eastern urban areas along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries. At the time, American and European adventurers had just infiltrated what might turn out to be every end of the Lewis and Clark Trail up the Missouri a few miles to the trapper central command at Fort Mandan and up the Columbia a tad over a hundred miles to a point a little past present-day Portland,