WESTWARD EXPANSION

Lewis Meriwether

Leader of the Lewis and Clark

Expedition

Was a captain in the military and

Thomas Jefferson’s personal secretary

Led expedition along the

Missouri River

William Clark

Became co-leader of the Corps of

Discovery in 1803

Studied astronomy and

map making

Appointed by Jefferson to become the

primary Indian agent of the

Louisiana territory

Sacagawea

Daughter of Shoshone

Indian chief

Translator and

navigator for the Corps of Discovery

Name means “Bird woman”

Expedition

Began with Lewis and Clark

leading the way up the

Missouri River in 1803

Stopped in Mandan for the winter (present

day North Dakota)

Met Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife Sacagawea

Expedition

Reach the Rocky

Mountains where

Sacagawea meets her brother.

Sacagawea helps the Corps get through the

Bitterroot Mountains

Make it to the Pacific coast in

1805

Information gathered from http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1800_1820.htm

Photo of Lewis: Peale, Charles Willson (Painter). (1807). Meriweather Lewis[Painting]. Retrieved November 30, 2011, from:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Meriweather_Lewis-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg/220px-Meriweather_Lewis-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg

Photo of Clark: Charles Willson Peale (Painter). (1810). William Clark [painting] Retrieved November 30, 2011, from:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/William_Clark-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg/245px-William_Clark-Charles_Willson_Peale.jpg

Photo of Sacagawea: [Untitled photograph of Sacagawea]. Retrieved November 30,2012, from: http://buildingbridges.yolasite.com/resources/Sacagawea.jpg