The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States by Nell Musolf
Author:Nell Musolf [Musolf, Nell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction/History/Exploration & Discovery, Perspectives Flip Books
ISBN: 9780756546908
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-05-28T17:01:45+00:00
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
In 1803 the United States increased in size considerably. That was the year the United States bought 828,000 square miles (2.1 million square km) of land from France. The land cost $15 million and covered a huge section west of the Mississippi River. After the Louisiana Purchase, the size of the United States doubled.
President Thomas Jefferson hired Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the newly acquired lands. He was especially interested in having Lewis and Clark look for a river that extended west from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. A river route would make it easier to move goods from the East to the West. The explorers left on their journey from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804.
Meriwether Lewis
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