Lewis and Clark
What students should know:
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- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were explorers.
- Thomas Jefferson asked Lewis to go on a journey to explore land westof the Mississippi.
- Lewis and Clark called their trip the Voyage of Discovery.
- The United States bought the Louisiana Purchase from France.
- Lewis and Clark traveled to the Pacific Ocean.
- Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase.
- Lewis and Clark used various types of transportation on their voyage.
- Lewis and Clark were tolerant.
- Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark.
- Sacagawea showed courage.
- People in the past had different kinds of food, clothing, homes, transportation, and communication from the present.
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