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France sells 828,000 square miles of miles of land West of the Mississippi River to the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
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Jefferson secretly requuests approval from Congress for expedition
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Jefferson announces the Louisiana Purchase
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Expedition reaches the Great Falls of the Missouri River near what is now Great Falls,Montana
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Sacagawea meets the Shoshone chief,her long-lost brother
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Return to St. Louis;journey complete
