Question

President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Lewis and Clark to explore uncharted territory to provide the U.S government with information about the lands west of Mississippi. Why were their journal entries so valuable?

A) they were primary - source entries that recorded an authentic view of uncharted America.
B) the information in the journal entries was used to write a best - selling novel
C) the journal entries were a source of entertainment for other explorers and were published worldwide
D) they provided the explorers with necessary distraction from their hardships

Answer 1

A they were primary sources

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) they were primary - source entries that recorded an authentic view of uncharted America.

President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Lewis and Clark to explore uncharted territory to provide the U.S government with information about the lands west of Mississippi. Their journal entries were so valuable in that they were primary - source entries that recorded an authentic view of uncharted America.

President Jefferson asked Congress for $2,500 to finance exploration of the unknown Pacific West of the United States. So in 1804, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, successfully traveled the Missouri River to cross the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River and reached the Pacific Ocean on November 1805.