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When did Jefferson ask for funding for the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
On this day in 1803, Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000.
What did Lewis and Clark send back to St Louis?
On April 7, 1805, Lewis and Clark sent some of their crew and their keelboat loaded with zoological and botanical samplings, maps, reports and letters back to St. Louis while they and the rest of the Corps headed for the Pacific.
Why did Jefferson send Lewis and Clark on a bone hunting trip?
Share this story Why Jefferson believed mastodons roamed the American West Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to look for mastodons, and he sent Clark on a bone-hunting trip Jefferson thought he found a lion. It turned out to be a giant ground sloth.
How many people were on Lewis and Clark’s Expedition?
The expedition party included 45 souls including Lewis, Clark, 27 unmarried soldiers, a French-Indian interpreter, a contracted boat crew and a slave owned by Clark named York.
Why did Jefferson want to explore the west?
Believing the United States needed to expand west to help ensure its survival and prosperity, he jumped at the chance to buy Louisiana from France’s Napoleon Bonaparte. Plans were immediately made to explore the new acquisition and establish American claims to the vast region, an area which effectively doubled the size of the United States.
What did Lewis and Clark do in Harpers Ferry?
Great Britain declares war on France. Lewis writes to William Clark, asking him to co-lead the expedition up the Missouri. Clark accepts, in a letter dated July 18. Jefferson addresses his instructions to Lewis. Lewis stops in Harpers Ferry (in present-day West Virginia) and purchases supplies and equipment.
When did Jefferson send the secret letter to Congress?
Mr. Jenkinson will focus on the two-year “voyage of discovery” as seen through the complicated, rich, and nuanced journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. From September 9, 2020 Jefferson sends a secret letter to Congress asking for $2,500 to finance an expedition to explore the Missouri River.