Contents

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Contents

• Opening Slide . 1
• 1820s 2
• Expedition 3
• Maps .... 4
• Did you Know? .. 5
• More did you now? 6
• Meriwether Lewis ... 7
• The End .... 8

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Native
Americans

• By Chase

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1820s

• By the 1820s, when the furs in known as the
  Ojibwa (or Chippewa) , Onawa (or Ottawa) , and
  Pottawatomie had been part of trade system for
  many generations.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Expition of Lewis Clark
Lewis and Clark explored the trail above, the
red line is the place they traveled. By now that
travel would have been much easier.Right!
LewisandClark.net
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Did you
Know?

• Long Haul
• The expedition traveled over 8000 total miles
  over a period of 2 years, 4 months and 10 days.

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More did you know?

• Good Guess When the expedition reached the
  Pacific, Clark estimates they have traveled 4,162
  miles from the mouth of the Missouri to the
  Pacific. His guess was within 40 miles of the
  actual distance.

• What a Deal
• Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana
  Territory, 820,000 square miles, for 15 million.
  After interest the final total came to be
  27,267,622. That still works out to be only
  about 3 an acre!

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Meriwether Lewis
A former soldier and personal secretary to
President Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis was
chosen, with William Clark, to lead an overland
expedition to the Pacific Ocean. They succeeded
in reaching the Pacific and returning safely in a
trip which lasted more than two years
(1804-1806). Lewis was rewarded in 1806 with the
governorship of Louisiana. In 1809, on his way to
Washington, D.C., Lewis died under mysterious
circumstances in Tennessee. . Died on
October,11,1809.
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The
End
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Credits

• Pictures LewisClark.net
• Detroit Historical Museum
• Streaming videos