What goals did president jefferson set for lewis and clark's expedition?

Lewis and Clark were to report on the geography and natural resources of the West, to make contact with Native Americans, and to establish an American claim to the land west of the Rocky Mountains

There were many things that caused them to riot, mostly the Tea Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, later the intolerable acts, and even more. The enlightenment and republican ideas that shaped their thinking were based on thinkers such as John Locke, Rousseau, or in their locale, Thomas Paine, who all believed that governments should be changed if they are bad.