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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the United States' purchase of the Louisiana Purchase from France. The US payed a total of 15 million dollars for the territory. -
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Lewis and Clarke Expedition
The purpose of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition was to explore the newly purchased Louisiana territory. -
Expedition Begins
Thomas Jefferson chose Lewis and Clarke to journey to the new Louisiana territory, communicate with the Native Americans living there and observe the land and animals there. Lewis and Clarke created the Corps of Discovery and began the Lewis and Clarke expedition on May 14th, 1804. -
First Death of the Expedition
Seargent Charles Floyd became the first casualty of the Lewis and Clarke expedition when he died of an appendix burst. Lewis and Clarke named the hilltops where he was buried Floyd's bluff and the river by it Floyd's river. -
Lewis and Clarke meet Sacagawea
Lewis and Clarke hired Touissant Charbonneu as an interpreter for the expedition and meet his young wife Sacagawea, who becomes a great asset for the expedition not only as a guide but also as an interpreter. -
Sacagawea gives birth to baby boy
Jean Baptiste was the only baby born on the expedition and was born to Sacagawea and Touissant Charbonneu. -
Discover Grizzly Bear
The expeditioners kill a large Grizzy, which had never before been seen or described. -
Great Falls of the Missouri
Lewis and Clarke discovered Great Falls. They also discovered 4 more waterfalls upstream. It took them nearly a month to get past them. -
Found Sacagawea's long lost brother
The Corps of Discovery finds a village of Shoshone indians and attempts to negotiate for horses. While they are there, however, they find that the chief Cameahweit is in fact Sacagawea's brother who she was taken from as a child. -
Cross the Rocky Mountains
In September, 1805 the Corps of Discovery cross the Rocky Mountains into Idaho where they built canoes to travel downstream on the Colombia and Clearwater rivers to the Pacific Ocean. -
The Corps reaches the Pacific Ocean
Lewis sets his sites on the Ocean and writes his most famous journal entry "Ocian in view! O! The Joy!" -
End of Expedition
Lewis and Clarke arrived back in St. Louis on September 23rd, 1806. Marking the End of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition
