Meriwether Lewis

the glory and fame it would bring. Many people around me asked of my adventures or my viewpoint on my comrades. So I've channeled all of my findings into this paper. I'm sure Lewis had already spread around all the exotic new animals and plants, but perhaps it'd be better to hear from a fresh perspective. Meriwether Lewis, probably the brains of this whole operation. From recording…

The Lewis and Clark Expedition How would you feel if you were asked by the president to lead an expedition to explore new land? When America gained the Louisiana Purchase territory, a vast property from France to expand America, the government required someone to explore and chart the region. This party of explorers was led by Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark. The expedition lasted three years with only one occupant of their crew dying along the journey. The Lewis and Clark…

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the first American expedition to cross the western portion of America. This expedition was called the Corps of Discovery Expedition, but it is more commonly known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. President Thomas Jefferson ordered the expedition shortly after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Lewis and Clark were to be accompanied by a few select US Army volunteers. Their journey lasted from May 1804 to September 1806. Their main objective…

sources are easier to find and less stressful to find sometimes. These sources sometimes have to be sifted through ensure they are relevant but they are still sufficient. There are positives and negatives to using them both. This paper will use the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a way to explain how these source variations…

The westward expansion of the United States began in 1803 when then President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the footprint of the United States. This massive purchase of land covered 828,000 square miles at a cost of just 15 million dollars. (Louisiana Purchase) This massive purchase did not come easily for President Jefferson. Over the history of the United States many factors played into the colonization of the western part of the North American continent.…

Journal Summary, Over this long trip, I have experienced more things than any man will experience in his life. I travelled with Captain Meriwether Lewis, Captain William Clark, and four dozen other men. We came across native american tribes and treated very well by them. We traded with the tribes, expanded trading routes, and invited tribe representatives to Washington D.C. Also, if it was not for Sacagawea, we would not have returned home to greet our families. Before the trip started, we…

River. When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark went on their expedition of the territory, they reported an abundance of lakes and live animals that could support a large number…

stay there long enough to fully grasp the unique lifeways of local peoples including the Clatsops, Chinooks and Killamucks. Because Lewis and Clark did not have pre-existing knowledge of the specific lifeways of these groups, they instead relied on acquaintances with previously-encountered indigenous peoples to, as one scholar said, “make the strange familiar.” Lewis and Clark had to improvise their interactions with new peoples using ethnocentric presumptions to feel comfortable initiating…

humans have settled into a single life without first seeing what else there is to do, and the pain of not knowing what the world has to offer can cause dissatisfaction among people from doing the same thing over and over again. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, shows some of the effects that doubting one’s own life may lead to. Babbitt was dissatisfied with his current life, but after going out and doing…

he or she decides that relationship is not the same and break your heart by letting you go. In the album “Spirit”, Leona Lewis demonstrates how painful it is to go through a breakup and moving on. Throughout her songs Lewis writes about time being the solution to heal, creates comfort to her listeners, and appreciate the emotions the artist’s portraits in her songs. Was Lewis album “Spirit” more than embracing the pain cause by a lover? When you’re going through a breakup is hard to let go…