leader of the lewis and clark expedition was a captain in the military and thomas jefferson’s...
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WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Lewis Meriwether
Leader of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Was a captain in the military and
Thomas Jefferson’s personal secretary
Led expedition along the
Missouri River
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William Clark
Became co-leader of the Corps of
Discovery in 1803
Studied astronomy and
map making
Appointed by Jefferson to become the
primary Indian agent of the
Louisiana territory
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Sacagawea
Daughter of Shoshone
Indian chief
Translator and
navigator for the Corps of Discovery
Name means “Bird woman”
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Expedition
Began with Lewis and Clark
leading the way up the
Missouri River in 1803
Stopped in Mandan for the winter (present
day North Dakota)
Met Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife Sacagawea
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Expedition
Reach the Rocky
Mountains where
Sacagawea meets her brother.
Sacagawea helps the Corps get through the
Bitterroot Mountains
Make it to the Pacific coast in
1805
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Information gathered from http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1800_1820.htm
Photo of Lewis: Peale, Charles Willson (Painter). (1807). Meriweather Lewis[Painting]. Retrieved November 30, 2011, from:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Meriweather_Lewis-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg/220px-Meriweather_Lewis-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg
Photo of Clark: Charles Willson Peale (Painter). (1810). William Clark [painting] Retrieved November 30, 2011, from:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/William_Clark-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg/245px-William_Clark-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg
Photo of Sacagawea: [Untitled photograph of Sacagawea]. Retrieved November 30,2012, from: http://buildingbridges.yolasite.com/resources/Sacagawea.jpg