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Why did president jefferson send lewis and clark out west?​

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President Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers
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