As the Enlightenment period began in 1651, a new breed of explorers began to express and explore their scientific knowledge. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer of the land but an explorer of the mind. Franklin was constantly looking for ways to make things work a little better or more efficiently. He invented many important inventions, such as: bifocal eyeglasses, a type of harmonic

The Modernism period began in 1918; nine years later Charles Lindbergh took flight over the Atlantic Ocean and headed towards Paris. Lindbergh was the first man to ever successfully fly across the Atlantic nonstop. Lindbergh’s purpose for crossing the Atlantic nonstop was because no one else had done it. Some had tried but were either killed or injured in the process. Calvin Coolidge awarded Lindbergh the Congressional Medal of Honor for his historical flight. Lindbergh’s exploration found the newest and now the easiest way to travel across the oceans.

The Romanticism period began in 1803. Soon after it began, two explorers by the name of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, were sent on a mission by Thomas Jefferson to explore the uncharted lands of the West, in 1804. Jefferson had just purchased this land from France, and wanted to know what it was like in the West. Jefferson had filled in the missing places on the maps with rumors that they had heard from Indians, but he needed Lewis and Clark to create the real map. The main purpose of the expedition was to explore the rivers, and try and find the most direct course across the continent for the purpose of commerce. However, Lewis and Clark did not find a water route across the continent, but they did provide a more accurat

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