Part one of term paper
Perhaps no American felt a yearning to tame the West more powerfully than Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had grown up in a social circle where the men had planned an expedition to the Pacific. Since he shared his father’s avid interest in cartography, it is not surprising that he followed the reports of the explorations of the late 1700s ver ...

Part two of term paper
... of the United States, read Mackenzie’s account of his journey to the Pacific. Mackenzie’s recommendation that the British government assume control of the Columbia River troubled Jefferson, who feared for the national interest if the British appropriated the West coast and all avenues inland from it for themselves. Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress in 1803 for a visionary project that was to become one of American history's greatest adventure stories. Jefferson wanted to kno ...