What impact did Sacagawea have on american history?

Answer 1

Sacagawea was a Native American who helped show Louis and Clark (on the Louis and Clark Expedition) around the West.

The West had just been bought from Napoleon by Thomas Jefferson so there was still so much to learn about it.

If it wasn't for her, Louis and Clark might not have succeeded in their Expedition and the West might not be what it is today!

She was a very independent women who changed the world she was an expert on the world

she was a sweet and nice woman. She is also in the face of a $1 coin!

Answer 2

Sacajawea (or Sacagawea) was born c. 1788. in an Agaidiku tribe of the Lemhi Shoshone in Idaho. In 1800, when she was about twelve, she and several other girls were kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa warriors during a battle. At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French trapper living in the village, who had also taken another young Shoshone named Otter Woman as a wife. Lewis and Clark would winter at the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota, where they met her. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark party on November 4, 1804. She became invaluable as a guide in the region of her birth, near the Three Forks of the Missouri, and as a interpreter between the expedition and her tribe when the expedition reached that area. She would give birth during the expedition to Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, whom Clark later raised and educated. She also quieted the fears of other Native Americans, for no war party traveled with a woman and a small baby. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. After the expedition, William Clark offered Toussaint and Sacajawea a place in St. Louis and a proper education for Jean-Baptiste (at a time where there was no opportunity for Native Americans to receive an education). Toussaint then took a job with the Missouri Fur Company, and stayed at Fort Manuel Lisa in present-day North Dakota. Evidence suggests that Sacagawea died at the fort in 1812. Some Native American oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died in 1884. After her death, Toussaint signed over complete custody of his son Jean-Baptiste and his daughter Lisette over to William Clark.

Answer 3

Sacajawea's (please don't engage me in the etymology or the 100+ different ways to spell or pronounce her name) impact on American history was significant. Her presence on the expedition, and her translation skills allowed them to safely pass through lands inhabited by Native Americans with little trouble, and even afforded them trade with the locals. Because of her, the Lewis and Clark expedition was a major success, and eventually led to the entire face of the American continent being changed.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

she is still important today because she made it possible for the US to become larger by finding that land or territory im only 11 and i answered this question you people r dumb asses