Out of all investigations in the United States, the expedition of Lewis and Clark was the first government research expedition. The heads of the study were given a clear task, and all participants were provided with the necessary equipment.
Initially, the goal of the expedition was to most accurately determine what the United States had acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, but later the expedition became the basis for the expansion of the United States to the Wild West.
President Thomas Jefferson was very interested in sending an expedition of Lewis and Clark, because he wanted to
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