This video offers an overview of the expansion of the United States in 1803 through the Louisiana Purchase and the two-year expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to map the newly ...

Lewis and Clark continued to map out new areas as they progressed ... So did the U.S. get its money's worth with the Louisiana Purchase? Absolutely! While Lewis and Clark did not find the ...

In summer 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis and embarked ... Monroe and Livingston signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on May 2, 1803, in Paris. (The Senate later approved ...

Make sure you open the Lewis and Clark Expedition Places folders and see some of the other features. He has a map showing the extent of the Louisiana Purchase (which is what initiated the L&C ...

when even the maps they used uncertain? You look for specific historical deposits. And famed explorers of the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, made some very unusual ones. A year after ...

It was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase to explore the newly acquired territory. Lewis & Clark is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (WTRF) — Two hundred years ago, the Louisiana Purchase took a Corps of Discovery across the country before many states even existed on the map. They included Lewis and Clark ...

Visitors to the Lewis ... Clark Expedition of 1804 to 1806. President Jefferson commissioned the expedition to learn about the people, plants and animals of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase ...

Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, co-author of The Lewis and Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery, talked about Lewis and Clark’s journey and its legacy.

On this day in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to appropriate $2,500 — about $1.6 million in today’s dollars — to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. The path-breaking ...

In the early 1800s, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase territory, Clark brought York, whom his family had enslaved. York was with Lewis and Clark ...