The main reason why Thomas Jefferson financed the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike is because the US government needed an accurate survey of the new land that they wanted to use for settlement.
The answer would be A) Plymouth Colony started when Pilgrims obtained a land patent from the Virginia Company.
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Congress had long struggled to maintain an equal balance between slave and free state. As a result it would take six years for Congress to act on Florida's wish. Congress had to wait until another territory was ready to become a free state.
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