Lewis and Clark Storyboard
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- We should be fine we have a lot of people with us
- Hopefully nothing bad happens no one from our country has explored here
- Welcome! this is my Husband Toussaint we would love to come with you on your expedition we can help you communicate with the other tribes
- In the spring of 1804, Lewis, Clark, and dozens of other men left St. Louis, Missouri, by boat they traveled westward. They went because Jefferson wanted to plan an expedition to investigate the territory. in November they reached Knife River Village
- WE ARE GOING BACK HOME!!!!
- When they arrived they met There they met a young Shoshone Native American woman called Sacajawea and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau.They joined them on their journey as interpreters for them to communicate with other tribes
- 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. They wouldn’t see the Pacific Ocean until November 1805—over a year after they first left Missouri
- After a long winter waiting out the bad weather, the Corps was able to start making their way back east in March 1806. After returning Sacagawea and her husband to North Dakota, the remainder of the Corps arrived back in Missouri in late September, more than two years after they started their expeditio
- 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.
- This expedition did affect many people from their descorveries.Many people migrated west in search of new oppurtunites for their lives.
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