Who Was Sacagawea, and How Did She Evolve as A Person? President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 asked for funding from Congress for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the western territories between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Not only to find a full trade route to the Paci...
Aided by French-Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau and his native American wife Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific 18 months later, and successfully returned to Jefferson with the news. 1804 The Twelfth Amendment This amendment established separate votes in the Electoral College for president and vice president in order to prevent a scenario similar to the election of 1800, a Jefferson-Burr tie, which forced a series of tiebreaking votes. 1804 Northern confederacy scheme- Essex Junto Prior to the 1804 election, a group of New England Federalists feared losing in...
Harry S. Truman once said, "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." Lewis and Clark were given the task of exploring the Louisiana Purchase, and were determined to find a way to the Pacific ocean. Even though...
Manifest Destiny is an event and philosophy that changed how the United States expanded from thirteen colonies into what it is today. The term "Manifest Destiny," was first used in 1845 by John O'Sullivan, to give explanation for the United States' right of expansion. He stated that"...the right of ...
" the only effectual way to bring the Indians to knowledge of the truth is, first of all, to carry to them the gospel of Jesus Christ and that civilization and domestic economy will follow a reformation of heart and life." -- Twentieth Annual Report (1839), Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Robert V. 78) During the eighteenth century, most Americans lived on the East Side of North America. Methodists and Oregonians were known as typically Americans. At the beginning, Methodists settled at the area around New York and in the upper South. Mostly Methodism tended to f...
