Dr Margaret Huettl
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Hello.
I'm excited to be here.
The short answer is American expansion.
The longer answer, the more specific context, is that Thomas Jefferson had recently purchased the Louisiana Territory from
France, 1803, and this is territory from Louisiana all the way up to the Montana, Great Plains, Pacific Northwest area.
But the problem is that they bought that territory from France.
They didn't know anything about it, and they didn't actually negotiate for that territory with the people who lived there, the native people who lived there and were still the legal owners of the land.
And so...
What the Lewis and Clark expedition was supposed to do was get information, figure out what resources were in this territory, figure out what the Native relationships were in this territory, and then also open trade routes with Native people to help the United States get a foothold in these Indigenous territories.
Yeah.
So when they leave from St.
Louis, there's Lewis and Clark and then a series of a group of sergeants.
So it's a military led expedition and there's a group of sergeants.
Their names are Charles Floyd, Patrick Gass, John Ordway and Nathaniel Pryor, a group of 23 U.S.
Army soldiers.
And then York, who is enslaved by Clark.
He was born into slavery on Clark's family's plantation and had been with Clark for many years.
And then a group of French Canadian boatmen, about a dozen French Canadian boatmen because they were better at sailing canoes than many of the Americans.
A hunter named George Drouillard.
And that's most of the group that sets out from St.
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