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title: "Who commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 to explore the newly purchased American west and discover a route to the Pacific Ocean?"  
description: "Who commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 to explore the newly purchased American west and discover a route to the Pacific Ocean?"  
author: "Aarohi Misra"  
published: 2018-02-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34835/who-commissioned-meriwether-lewis-and-william-clark-in-1804-to-explore-the-newly-purchased-american-west-and-discover-a-route-to-the-pacific-ocean  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["united states of america(usa)"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 to explore the newly purchased American west and discover a route to the Pacific Ocean?

Who commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 to [explore](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85395/why-china-is-digging-10000-wells-explore-more) the newly purchased [American](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84935/top-5-american-entrepreneurs-2023-view) west and discover a [route](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2329/asp-dot-net-mvc-route-based-on-subdomain) to the [Pacific Ocean](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39457/which-country-is-not-a-part-of-melanesia-region-in-the-pacific-ocean)?\
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