Geography
The place where two rivers meet
What is a confluence?
Ways that Native Americans used the river to survive
What are water, trading, and food?
the first Native Americans to live in the St. Louis area
Who were the Mississippians?
The founders of St. Louis
Who were Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau
The city of St. Louis is named for ...
Who is Louis IX of France?
Three countries that claimed North America
What are France, Spain, and Great Britain ?
Different boats used on the Mississippi River before steamboats
What are flatboats, canoes, log rafts, or keelboats
What is a confluence?
What is good water source?
What are lots of trees and animals?
Missionary that wanted the Indians to become Christians
Who was Marquette?
The two major disasters that happened in 1849
What was the Great Fire? What was the cholera epidemic?
Event that made the Mississippi River flow backwards, form new lakes and destroyed lots of property
What is the New Madrid Earthquake?
The mode of transportation made steamboats less important
What are trains?
The Native Americans that lived in STL at the time of the founding
Who are the Osage?
Famous map maker and fur trader who explored the Mississippi River
What was Jolliet?
St. Louis's nickname before it was "Gateway to the West"
What is Mound City?
The town south of Saint Louis that still has many French Colonial buildings
What is St. Genevieve
Some of the problems that steamboats had to deal with
What were collisions, explosions, and snags
Saint Louis was founded by the French, but this country controlled the area
What is Spain?
First European to see the Mississippi River. He was a Spanish conquistador looking for the Fountain of Youth
Who was Hernando de Soto?
Who is Mark Twain?
Downtown fridge in St. Louis that the was first bridge built south of the confluence between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
What is the Eads Bridge?
People that traveled North America to trade. The would transport furs from the Native Americans to the French trading centers
Who were the Voyageurs?
St. Louis was founded on the west side of the Mississippi River because what country controlled the east side
What is Great Britain?
First European to travel the full length of the Mississippi River - He was French and claimed Louisiana for France
Who was Robert de la Salle?
Most people made money in early St. Louis because of this trade
What is the fur trade?