BPE4_challenge1

Lewis and Clark [|**http://www.apimages.ap.org**] **Challenge:** Write a summary about the expedition describing what you would have seen if you would have been there.
 * BPE Group 4: Challenge 1 **

1. What Fort did they build? 2. Who was their slave? 3. What rivers did they come across? 4. After Lewis and Clark's expedition, who started another expedition? 
 * Guidelines:** Answer the following questions to help complete your summary.

President Thomas jefferson sent two men, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the new land after the Louisiana Purchase. They were required to: map a make; study the soil, plants, and animals; and study the people that alreay lived there (the Indians). Lewis and Clark went with over thirty men, including Clark's slave York. They went up the Misourri River by boat after they left present day St. Louis. After building Fort Mandan, a Native American woman, Sacagawea, who went with them. She helped guide them along their expedition. Later the expedition moved further up the Missouri River and theirjourney continued up the Rocky Mountains. The men crossed Clearwater, Snake, and the Columbia River. In November 1805, Lewis, Clark, and the other crew members reached the Pacific Ocean. They returned to the states as herosbringing back a map, facts about the land, seeds, plants, and living animals that were captured. In 1806, Zebulon Pike s tarted another expedition called the Pike expedition.