MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Plants, animals, natives, mountains, and rivers
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The Northwest Passage
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis and Clark’s team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains. They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they’d never seen before. They also brought back stories-tales that made other Americans dream about heading west.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lewis and Clark found hundreds of thousands of buffalo, elk, deer (including mule deer), antelope, prairie dogs and beaver in North Dakota. Near Bismarck, men of the expedition wounded their first grizzly bear, but it escaped before they could find it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lewis and Clark added to geographic knowledge by determining the true course of the Upper Missouri and its major tributaries, and producing important maps of these areas. They forever destroyed the dream of a Northwest Passage, but proved the success of overland travel to the Pacific.