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On January 18, 1803, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent a secret message to Congress

asking for $2,500 to send an officer and a dozen soldiers to explore the Missouri River,

make diplomatic contact with Indians, expand the American fur trade, and locate the Nor-

thwest Passage (the much-sought-after hypothetical northwestern water route to the Paci-

fic Ocean). The proposed trip took on added significance on May 2, when the United States

agreed to the Louisiana Purchase—Napoleon’s sale of 828,000 square miles (2,100,000

square km) of French territory for $27 million. Jefferson, who had already sponsored

several attempts to explore the West, asked his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to

lead the expedition. Lewis was dispatched to Philadelphia for instruction in botany, celestial

navigation, medicine, and zoology.

As his co-commander he selected William Clark, who had been his military superior during

the government’s battles with the Northwest Indian Federation in the early 1790s. The

U.S. secretary of war denied Lewis’s request of a shared command, but Captain Lewis and

Lieutenant Clark chose to address one another as “captain” to hide this fact from the other

members of the expedition

7. In 1803 the United States bought a French territory. yes O no

8. The purchase of Louisiana gave even more weight to the request. yes o no

9. When the request was made, President Jefferson had already tried to send exploratory missions to the west. yes O no

10. The official leader(s) of the expedition was/were: a Lewis I Clark O both of them

11. Lewis was required to go back to school to be prepared. yes O no

12. Lewis and Clark had already met before the expedition. yes no​