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"Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia" by Charles M.
Russell (1905)
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Question 924:
The Corps of
Discovery commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by Lewis
and Clark
(A) accomplished Jefferson's goal of discovering an all-water route to
the Pacific Ocean
(B) was greatly hindered in its journey by a Shoshone woman Sacagawea
(C) traveled up the Missouri River by boat and then by foot across the
Bitterroot Mountains on its way to the Pacific Coast
(D) met consistently fierce resistance from the Indian tribes they
encountered
(E) discovered the Pleistocene mammals, such as mastodons, that
Jefferson thought might still inhabit the American West
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