USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Pacific Ocean and back, the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition company was called, traveled nearly 8, 000 miles (13, 000 km). The entourage, numbering about four dozen men, covered 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 km) a day-poling, pushing, and pulling their 10-ton keelboat and two pirogues (dugout boats) up…

Detailed explanation-2: -Their voyage covered more than 8, 000 miles in less than two-and-a-half years. It had resounding effects throughout American science and history, and disrupted the lives of countless Native Americans throughout North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -After meeting Sacagawea and her husband, the Corps traveled west from North Dakota, 15 to 20 miles a day on foot and by boat, toward the mountains. Day after day, the exhausted, freezing team braved rough rivers and perilous peaks, getting by on very little food.

Detailed explanation-4: -On November 15, 1805, Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery reach the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River, one year, six months, and one day after leaving St. Louis, Missouri, in search of the legendary “Northwest Passage” to the sea.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Corps of Discovery returned with a great deal of knowledge about the new United States territory west of the Mississippi–the people, the land, the rivers, the mountains, the plants and animals. The expedition made important contributions to the mapping of the North American continent.