MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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The explorers conquered Native Americans making it easier for people to move west.
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The explorers built roads, which citizens used to move west.
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The explorers found more land in which to persuade the government to buy.
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The explorers were able to chart, map, and explore the newly gained Louisiana Territory.
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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: -Regardless, the Louisiana Purchase and subsequent Lewis and Clark Expedition paved the way for a modern United States, opening for many the amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesty of the Rocky Mountains and beyond.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–06) was a U.S. military expedition, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. The expedition was a major chapter in the history of American exploration.
Detailed explanation-4: -The information legacy of the Lewis and Clark expedition was profound. They charted vast areas of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and Columbia River watershed. Their ethnography, zoology and botany contributed greatly to the scientific literature.