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路易士和克拉克在远征的途中曾经到过这个人称「落机山脉心脏」的地方
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参议院于1803年10月20日批准路易斯安那购买条约 (Louisiana
Purchase Treaty)
因为面临到财务上的短缺，而且才刚吃了一场败仗，又必须面对英国与美国针对领土纠纷而可能与法国引发战争的威胁，拿破仑决定减少损失。美国驻法国官员罗伯特．李文斯坦与詹姆士．门罗二人共同策划了这个购买案。这片土地从密西西比河延伸到落机山脉。在签署购买条约12天后，马力威瑟．路易士 (Mariwether
Lewis) 与威廉．克拉克 (William
Clark) 奉命前往探索并堪测这片新的土地。那些从美国独立革命之后就积极寻求向西部发展的新移民们，现在终于可以在一大片新土地上重新落地生根了。
Faced with a shortage of cash, a recent military defeat, and the threat of a war with Great Britain and the United States over the territory in question, Napoleon decided to cut his losses. U.S. minister to France Robert Livingston, and James Monroe made the arrangements for the purchase. The land stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Twelve days after the signing of the treaty, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore and map the new area. Settlers, who had had been pushing westward since the United States' victory in the Revolutionary War, would now have a vast new expanse of land to homestead.
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