Positive and negative support for expeditions - how important was the role of the government in the opening up of the West

Positive support for expeditions (who?)

President Jefferson persuaded Congress to provide money for an expedition under William Clark/Meriweather Lewis

Positive support for expeditions (where?)

Lands acquired by the Louisiana Purchase

Positive support for expeditions (when?)

1803

Positive support for expeditions (impact?)

Began to provide others knowledge of the area

Help for the future, provided maps of some four thousand miles featuring details of the Rocky Mountain and the Atlantic Coast

Negative support for expeditions (who?)

Major Stephen Long

Negative support for expeditions (where?)

Traveled through Nebraska and Colorado to the Rockies

Negative support for expeditions (when?)

1819-1920

Negative support for expeditions (impact?)

His report discouraged movement west as he argued that the Great Plains would be unsuitable for settlement