Corps of Discovery traveled from the central United States Northwest to the Pacific.
The states they passed through on their route on today's map would be:
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington State
Members of the Corps of Discovery was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and included Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The objective was to study the land and its offering to learn how the Louisiana Purchase could be profitable.
The lynching of sheriff Henry Plummer poses one of the most haunting mysteries of the Old West. The story is well-known: in 1863, miners at the booming gold camp of Bannack (then in Idaho Territory, now in Montana) elected a sheriff. The soft-spoken young Easterner proved to be an efficient lawman, yet in 1864 he was lynched by vigilantes. Their apologist Thomas Dimsdale explained to the populace that the sheriff had been a ‘very demon’ who directed a band guilty of murdering more than 100 citizens.
Three of the four items are part of the "Lemon test" (as it has been called) that came out of the Lemon v. Kurtzman case.
Legislation concerning religion
1. Must have a secular legislative purpose.
2. Neither advances nor inhibits religion.
3. Must not foster excessive entanglement with religion (on the part of the state).
The original case was about whether teachers who were teaching in private schools that had a religious affiliation could be paid with state funds if they were teaching the same courses taught in public schools, using the public school textbooks and instructional materials.
Because of the falling stronghold of the Ottoman Empire.
