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CHAPTER 45

Author: Joshua A. Akor
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Mrs. ayodele stood up.

“Guys, I would love us to talk old stuffs”

“Like?” Debo asked.

“Old things of the past.. History, who’s going first?”

“Me,” Ayoka smiled, humbly.

The Lewis and Clark expedition is known as a dangerous journey across the unknown lands of western United States. The exploration proved to be an achievement for the United States by paving the way to new developments in territorial expansion. President Thomas Jefferson selected Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 to explore the lands west of the Mississippi River. This exploration called the Lewis and Clark expedition resulted from the Louisiana Purchase, which granted 828,000 square miles of land

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