Sacagawea

At the point when Thomas Jefferson utilized the youthful warrior Meriwether Lewis as his live-in secretary in 1801, he anon perceived in him the man to lead a campaign into the Louisiana Territory, which Jefferson would anon buy from France, and past to the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast. Jefferson's aspirations were sundry: logical information of a consummately obscure district, control of affluent exchange courses, and political command. To integrate to Lewis' experience of…

had begun the journey west. The Louisiana purchase doubled the country’s land mass for 15 million. In order to survey the new land, Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition on May 14th 1804. Lewis and Clark, along with the help of Sacagawea, explored the new territory, and made numerous discoveries. There was a war going on between Britain and France, and both countries forbid America to trade with the opposite country. Jefferson and congress responded by issuing the Embargo…

Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory in the West. Jefferson selected Meriwether Lewis, his personal secretary at the time, to lead the Expedition; Lewis in turn sought the help of William Clark, who was an adept frontiersman. Jefferson’s objective was for the men and their team (Corps of Discovery), to find a water route linking the Columbia and Missouri rivers, which could potentially connect…

A One Sided Friendship Throughout this year in Social Studies class we have learned many things about America's past. Lots of influential events and brave men and women have stuck with me but the one thing I will remember is how Native Americans helped the creation of America. Settlers went to war with the Native Americans, Created an Indian Removal Act, and even when they tried to assimilate to the settlers way of life, we still made them leave. They helped Americans create the U.S.A. Early…

In May of 1804 Meriwether Lewis invited me on a expedition with William Clark with 59 other people, we set sailed on the Missouri River. When we recline on the Missouri River. Lewis stopped on a couple stops to put stuff in his journal. September 5th, 1804 we spotted a deer with black tales cliffs upstream from the mouth of the Niobrara River in northeast Nebraska. On July 9th,1806 in Montana near Sun River we stopped and a plant with a blueish petals on it and Lewis wrote in his journal…

the Native Americans in the territory for trade. The three other goals included mapping out their journey, find a water route across the continent, and take notes on geography and animals they encountered. They achieved all of them and even met Sacagawea, a Native American, and her tribe. This helped them create good relations with the Native Americans. From the expedition America gained good trading partners, new plants and animal's, and a water route across the territory to the Pacific…

Cities" he discussed what the city of the future needs to include. The first commandment that was mentioned was "The City of the future has to be environmentally friendly; and think green" (Paes). One of Longview's biggest attribute would be Lake Sacagawea. The area is full of green plants everywhere, from the trees, grass, and bushes. In the center of the park is a body of water. People from all over are able to come together and enjoy the nature scene with out even having to leave the city.…

The Lewis and Clark Expedition is most commonly known as the exploration that led to the westward expansion of the United States of America. William Clark is highly under-credited for his role as one of the two explorers on the trip with most of the credit given to Meriwether Lewis. William Clark is responsible for the making of maps along the journey, especially his master map of the West. Without the detailed maps that Clark created, there would have been a delay in westward expansion in an…

relations with the natives, extending invitations for education and smallpox medicines to smooth the transition into friendship. These actions could not have taken place without communication, which had to be translated. This was the work of people like Sacagawea, and proved that the actions of the white men must have been decent enough to garner the support of so many tribes and interpreters. They even went to great lengths, and spent long hours in the effort of making everything clear for both…

“Be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be,” William Clark once stated during an expedition that explored the Western part of the United States in the early 1800’s. The white people’s viewpoint, that the Corps of Discovery expedition was important for America’s expansion westward, is more accurate because the expedition brought different groups of people…