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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for the paltry sum of $15 million dollars. The 530,000,000 acres of land more than doubled the size of the United States and seemed to secure Jefferson’s vision for an agrarian republic. Soon thereafter, Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark off to explore this new territory. Specifically, Jefferson wanted to know about the Native Americans in the region, opportunities for trade, the kinds of minerals and resources that were available to exploit, and if there was a water route that could allow Americans to trade with Asia. Financially backed by the United States, Lewis and Clark set off from St. Louis in the summer of 1804.

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