Who explored the louisiana territory?

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the government-commissioned expedition to explore the newly-acquired Louisiana territory. Their exploration team was known as the Corps of Discovery. The Corps set out from St. Louis, Missouri in 1804 and returned in 1806, having covered 8,000 miles in two years. read more

Jefferson soon commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the territory – Louisiana – was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state. read more