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Corps of Discovery

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  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase
    -almost doubled the size of the United States overnight
    -representives were Robert Livingstone and James Monroe
    *picture from purchase"wikipedia16may2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LouisianaPurchase.png
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    Corps of Discovery

  • Lewis and Clark leave St. Lewis

    Lewis and Clark leave St. Lewis
    GOALS
    -find the Northwest Passage
    -map the Louisiana Purchase
    -Establish US presence
    -record new animals and plants
    n.a.LewisandClark"wikipedia16may2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition#Bibliography

  • Sergant Charles Floyd dies

    Sergant Charles Floyd dies
    this is significant because Charles Floyd was the only one to die on the whole expedition.
    n.a.LewisandClark"wikipedia16may2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition#Bibliography

  • Corps of Discovery arrives at winter camp

    Corps of Discovery arrives at winter camp
    temperatures this winter dipped to -45

  • grizzly bear

    Lewis and Clark never recived a heads up about the bears and so know they shoot at it and ran from it but it still came.

  • the Corps of discovery hits the great falls

    this means that Lewis and Clark could not not go over the falls so they had to portage around them
    n.a.LewisandClark"wikipedia16may2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition#Bibliography

  • entering the bitterroot

    they must cross these mountains so that they can jump into the columbia drainage system. but these mountains are rugged and long

  • going through the rapids

    to the natives of the area these rapids were unpassible and so they gathered on the bank to watch them flip a canoe

  • vote of where to have Fort Caltsop

    vote of where to have Fort Caltsop
    in this vote sacagawea who was a women and York was a slave this was the first time a slave and a woeman were allowed to vote
    photo from-http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/fortclatsop

  • the Corps of Discovery finds the ocean

    they have got to the ocean now they can head home

  • the corps of discovery comes back

    Lewis and clark have made it back and they have not found the northwest passage but they are not dead
    n.a.LewisandClark"wikipedia16may2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition#Bibliography