The correct answer is the following.
The correct order of the events is 2-3-1.
<em>The United States offers to buy New Orleans from France, Jefferson makes the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark lead the Corps of Discovery.</em>
According to the American idea of Manifested Destiny, President Tomas Jefferson wanted to expand the United States territory. Since the middle of the 18th century, France controlled the territories of New Orleans to the Great Lakes and until Montana. Jefferson ordered the purchase of that territory called the "Louisiana Territory" and sent James Monroe to Paris to negotiate the purchase. France agreed to a payment of $11,250,000 for the territory. The agreement was signed on May 2, 1803. After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, President Jefferson ordered the exploration of the territories west the Mississippi River that was unknown to the Americans.
The Lewis and Clark expedition. He sent his secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead the expedition of the territories in order to be secure for human settlement.
