Sacagawea

Undaunted Courage Undaunted Courage, written by Stephan E. Ambrose, is the tale of a hero, but it is also a tragedy. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians. Lewis may have received a hero's welcome on his return to Washington in 1806, but his discoveries did not match the president's…

Simply saying penny has been around for many years would be a blatant understatement; it has been etched into society as a reminder of perhaps the greatest president the country has ever seen. Abolishing the penny, is a move that would attempt to erase the more than a century long legacy of Abraham Lincoln and all of his accomplishments. Not only would the expulsion cause a brash disregard of history, it would also cause major inconveniences for the American populous. A reform of the monetary…

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…

On September 22, 1805, the explorers finally emerged from the mountains near present-day Weippe, Idaho, exhausted and nearly starving. They met the Nez Perce Indians and got dried fish and roots from them. Lewis and Clark set up camp on the banks of the Clearwater River, a branch of the Snake River, which was a branch of the Columbia River. On October 7, they left camp and started down the Clearwater River in their five newly hollowed dugouts they had made. They reached the Snake River on…

There can be no doubt that the Lewis and Clark expedition was a monumental juncture in American history – the lands that they explored more than two hundred years ago are today home to millions of Americans. However, at the time, most Americans had only a faint conception of what genuinely existed west of their homes. They could not have imagined the spectacular lands of the Pacific coast, territory that would become, arguably, the nation 's most highly sought-after within 50 years. However,…

The social elements between 1800-1824 were mainly affected by the relationship of the American Indians and Thomas Jefferson during the time known as the Jeffersonian Era. Thomas Jefferson believed that even though Indian societies were inferior to Western culture, they still had a very primitive nobility that he thought was worthy of respect (Keene, 202). He was very optimistic in the future American- Indian relationships because of his belief in the Enlightenment. All Jefferson wanted the…

In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Louisiana territory was the last remaining obstacle for U.S. expansion against the British. But suddenly, America had a new problem: France. During his reign as the French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte controlled the Louisiana territory and he wasn’t planning on giving it up, however, he eventually had to abandon his imperial plans in America. His attention shifted to a French colony that was revolting in Haiti, led by François Dominique Toussaint,…

such as how the Native American tribes would often help or hinder pioneers in the West, even the great explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who forged a path to the West could not have survived without the help of the Native Americans and Sacagawea, yet the Frontier thesis provided by Frederick Jackson Turner briefly describes the Native Americans as primitive and ignores their viewpoint of what the American Frontier was. The Native Americans, with all their influence on the creation of…

America the Story of Us Episode 1: Rebels In May of 1610 a ship named “The Deliverance” was making its way towards America. Young English farmers were upon this ship taking the treacherous journey in search of a new life. The majority of the common people will not make it to see the land of the free. But that does not shift the people's persuasion in the chance of opportunity. Land, wilderness, gems, and more are laid throughout the America’s waiting to be claimed. Ten years later new…

but unfortunately the elk had retreated to the mountains. The crew was also too poor to purchase food from the neighboring tribes. On November 4, 1805, the crew voted whether or not to camp near the south side of the Columbia River for the winter. Sacagawea, their Indian guide, and Clark’s personal slave, York, were surprisingly allowed to vote as well. This may have been the first time in American history that a woman and a slave…