Who guided Louis and clark on there expedition?

Answer 1

Sacajawea (or Sacagawea) was born c. 1788. in an Agaidiku tribe of the Lemhi Shoshone in Idaho. In 1800, when she was about twelve, she and several other girls were kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa warriors during a battle. At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French trapper living in the village, who had also taken another young Shoshone named Otter Woman as a wife. Lewis and Clark would winter at the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota, where they met her. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark party on November 4, 1804. She became invaluable as a guide in the region of her birth, near the Three Forks of the Missouri, and as a interpreter between the expedition and her tribe when the expedition reached that area. She would give birth during the expedition to Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, whom Clark later raised and educated. She also quieted the fears of other Native Americans, for no war party traveled with a woman and a small baby. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. After the expedition, William Clark offered Toussaint and Sacajawea a place in St. Louis and a proper education for Jean-Baptiste (at a time where there was no opportunity for Native Americans to receive an education). Toussaint then took a job with the Missouri Fur Company, and stayed at Fort Manuel Lisa in present-day North Dakota. Evidence suggests that Sacagawea died at the fort in 1812. Some Native American oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died in 1884. After her death, Toussaint signed over complete custody of his son Jean-Baptiste and his daughter Lisette over to William Clark.

Answer 2

Besides Meriwether Lewis and Capt. William Clark of course...

1.) Sergeant Charles Floyd (1782 - 1804)

2.) Sergeant Patrick Gass (1771 - 1870)

3.) Sergeant Nathanial Hale Pryor (1772-1831)

4.) Sergeant John Ordway (ca. 1775-ca. 1817)

5.) Corporal Richard Warfington (1777-?)

6.) Private John Boley (dates unknown)

7.) Private William E. Bratton (1778-1841)

8.) Private John Collins (?-1823)

9.) Private John Colter (ca. 1775-1813)

10.) Private Pierre Cruzatte (dates unknown)

11.) Private John Dame (1784-?)

12.) Private Joseph Fields (ca. 1772-1807)

13.) Private Reuben Fields (Joseph's brother) (ca. 1771-1823?)

14.) Private Robert Frazer (?-1837)

15.) Private George Gibson (?-1809)

16.) Private Silas Goodrich (dates unknown)

17.) Private Hugh Hall (ca. 1772-?)

18.) Private Thomas Proctor Howard (1779-?)

19.) Private Francois Labiche (dates unknown)

20.) Private Jean Baptiste LePage (1761-1809)

21.) Private Hugh McNeal (dates unknown)

22.) Private John Newman (ca. 1785-1838) (expelled from the expedition)

23.) Private Moses B. Reed (dates unknown) (expelled from the expedition)

24.) Private John Potts (1776-1808?)

25.) Private John Robertson (ca. 1780-?)

26.) Private George Shannon (1785-1836) (youngest member)

27.) Private John Shields (1769-1809)

28.) Private John B. Thompson (dates unknown)

29.) Private Howard Tunn (1770 - ?)

30.) Private Ebenezer Tuttle (1773-?)

31.) Private Peter M. Weiser (1781-?)

32.) Private William Werner (dates unknown)

33.) Private Isaac White (ca. 1774-?)

34.) Private Joseph Whitehouse (ca. 1775-?)

35.) Private Alexander Hamilton Willard (1778-1865)

36.) Private Richard Windsor (dates unknown)

37.) Engagé Alexander Carson (ca. 1775-1836)

38.) Engagé Charles Caugee (dates unknown)

39.) Engagé Joseph Collin (dates unknown)

40.) Engagé Jean Baptiste Deschamps (dates unknown)

41.) Engagé Charles Hebert (dates unknown)

42.) Engagé Jean Baptiste La Jeunesse (?-1806?)

43.) Engagé Etienne Malboeuf (ca. 1775-?)

44.) Engagé Peter Pinaut (ca. 1776-?)

45.) Engagé Paul Primeau (dates unknown)

46.) Engagé Franois Rivet (ca. 1757-1852)

47.) Engagé Peter Roi (dates unknown)

48.) Toussaint Charbonneau (Sacagawea's husband) (1767-1843)

49.) Sacagawea (c. 1788-1812)

50.) Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (Sacagawea's son) (1805-1866)

51.) Interpreter George Drouillard (?-1810)

52.) York (Clark's slave) (c. 1770-March 1831?)

53.) "Seaman" or "Scannon", Lewis' large black Newfoundland dog

Answer 3

The expedition's goal as stated by President Jefferson was "to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it as, by its course & communication with the water of the Pacific Ocean may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's Natural Resources, inhabitants, and possibilities for settlement,

Jefferson's instruction to Lewis were:

"Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind, as that they may with certainty be recognized hereafter....The variations of the compass too, in different places should be noticed."

(considering the Native Americans) "...You will therefore endeavor to make yourself acquainted, as far as diligent pursuit of your journey shall admit with the names of the nations & their numbers, the extent & limits of their possessions; their relations with other tribes or nations; their language, traditions, monuments, their ordinary occupations in agriculture, fishing, hunting, war, arts & the implements for these, their food, clothing, & domestic accommodations, the diseases prevalent among them, & the remedies they use, moral and physical circumstance which distinguish them from the tribes they know, particularities in their laws, customs & dispositions, and articles of commerce they may need or furnish & to what extent."

"Other objects worthy of notice will be the soil & face of the country, it's growth & vegetable productions, especially those not of the US; the animals of the country generally & especially those not known in the US; the remains & accounts of any which may be deemed rare or extinct; the mineral productions of every kind, but more particularly metals, limestone, pit coal & saltpetre, salines & mineral waters, noting the temperature of the last & such circumstances as may indicate their character; volcanic appearances; climate as characterized by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds, prevailing at different seasons & the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, reptiles or insects."

Answer 4

The expedition's goal as stated by President Jefferson was "to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it as, by its course & communication with the water of the Pacific ocean may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants, and possibilities for settlement,

Jefferson's instruction to Lewis were:

"Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind, as that they may with certainty be recognized hereafter....The variations of the compass too, in different places should be noticed."

(considering the Native Americans) "...You will therefore endeavor to make yourself acquainted, as far as diligent pursuit of your journey shall admit with the names of the nations & their numbers, the extent & limits of their possessions; their relations with other tribes or nations; their language, traditions, monuments, their ordinary occupations in agriculture, fishing, hunting, war, arts & the implements for these, their food, clothing, & domestic accommodations, the diseases prevalent among them, & the remedies they use, moral and physical circumstance which distinguish them from the tribes they know, particularities in their laws, customs & dispositions, and articles of commerce they may need or furnish & to what extent."

"Other objects worthy of notice will be the soil & face of the country, it's growth & vegetable productions, especially those not of the US; the animals of the country generally & especially those not known in the US; the remains & accounts of any which may be deemed rare or extinct; the mineral productions of every kind, but more particularly metals, limestone, pit coal & saltpetre, salines & mineral waters, noting the temperature of the last & such circumstances as may indicate their character; volcanic appearances; climate as characterized by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds, prevailing at different seasons & the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, reptiles or insects."

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 6

He Louisiana purchase.