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Lewis and Clark Expedition
A look at the Jefferson administration's Lewis and Clark Expedition.
# 112064
| 1,787 words
| 6 sources
| MLA
| 2009
| 
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on Feb 10, 2009
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History
(U.S. Before 1865)
, History
(U.S. Presidency)
, History
(U.S. The Young Nation 1800-1848)
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Description:
The paper discusses two major achievements of the Jefferson administration; the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The paper examines what spurred Jefferson to launch the expedition and relates its important results, including mapping the route, meeting, detailing and forming a bond with many of the Indian tribes along the way, as well as the scientific investigation of plants, geology and animal species. The paper shows how this expedition would lead the way for the great expansion into the West.
Sample of Sources Used:
- De Voto, Bernard. The Course of Empire. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
- Fritz, Harry W. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. New York: Greenwood Publishing, 2004.
- "History of the Expedition." The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2008). April 28, 2008. http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/examples/servlet/transform/tamino/Library/lewisandclarkjournals?&_xmlsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/files/xml/introduction.general.xml&_xslsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/LCstyles.xsl.
- Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.
- Onuf, Peter S. "The Revolution of 1803." The Wilson Quarterly 27(1)(Winter 2003), 22-29.
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