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Nov 9, 2009 · The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring the lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana...
An exploration and timeline of Jefferson's role in the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the Westward Expansion of the United States.
Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
Origins of 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.
Thomas Jefferson was elected to the presidency in 1800. Two years later, he decided to organize an official, government-sponsored expedition to explore the upper reaches of the Missouri River and by so doing to find the elusive Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. He chose Meriwether Lewis, his personal secretary, to lead the expedition.
Lewis and Clark planned to winter near long-established villages inhabited by large numbers of the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes, north of present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. On October 26, 1804, the Expedition arrived at the earth-lodge Indian villages, approximately 1,600 miles from Camp Dubois.
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List of major causes and effects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Initiated by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, the expedition succeeded in establishing an overland route to the Pacific Ocean and documented its exploration of lands acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase.
