Why did President Jefferson send the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

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Oknoorap · Answer 1 · 2022-08-22T16:33:27+0000

To find more land and expand the land. In order to expand he needed to know what was out there. Lewis and Clark found many species of new things.

Damini Mehra · Answer 2 · 2022-08-28T16:23:41+0000

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President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers.

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