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Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase was officially announced. It doubled the United state's territory. From now on, Lewis started the Journey to explore this new land. *820,000 square miles for 3 cents an acre. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/louisiana-purchase-and-african-americans-1803
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Clark Joining the Expedition
William Clark, the territorial governer for Missouri joined the expedition. Katie, Emma
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Camp Wood(Dubois)
Lewis and Clark created Camp Wood, the winter shelter for their expedition, on the Wood River in Illinois. Don't exactly know the date, it was about fall/winder of 1803. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/resources_timeline_1803.html
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Start of the Journey
The expedition started from March 14, 1804, departed from Camp Dubois. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition -
Charles Floyd's Death
Charles Floyd, who was a sergeant of the expedition dies because of natural cause near by the Missouri River. He was the only person who was died from the expedition. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC50F0C_charles-floyd-lewis-clark-trail
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Conflict between tribes and expedition
The Corps had encountered difficulties with the Teton Sioux. They demanded a boat, air gun, clothings, tobacco, and so on. They basically had a first conflict between them and a native american tribe. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/resources_timeline_1804.html -
Sacagawea
The captain of the expedition met and hired Sacagawea, who is a native american woman who would help the corps in many different ways by being an interpreter for the journey. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/resources_timeline_1804.html
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Rocky Mountain
The corps started to climb up into the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains. http://rodmartin.org/the-lewis-clark-anniversary/
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Colombia River
Lewis and Clark reached to the Columbia River, the way to go out to the Pacific Ocean. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/resources_timeline_1805.html -
Fort Clatsop
Since the corps and slaves and Sacagawea reached near to the Pacific Ocean, they decided to build their camp for winter. They chose the Clatsop Indian side of the Columbia, and that is called Fort Clatsop. http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Clatsop
