What is Jefferson's primary mission for Lewis and Clark in the Louisiana Purchase?

One of the primary objectives of the expedition as directed by President Jefferson was to be a surveillance mission that would report back the whereabouts, military strength lives, activities, and cultures of the various American Indian tribes that inhabited the territory newly acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase and the northwest in general.

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President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase.

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