Louisiana Purchase
This U.S. President doubled the size of the country with a deal in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The newly acquired territory is what the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition was sent to explore in 1804.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the U.S., but left the exact borders of the Red River valley dangerously undefined.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
While we know it by the leaders' names today, Thomas Jefferson officially titled this military mission the "Corps" of this.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution," this fourth U.S. President asked Congress for a declaration of war against Britain in 1812.
Who is James Madison?
This French Leader sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This type of transportation was commonly used by explorers to travel through rivers and waterways during the expedition.
What is a boat?
Often called the "Lewis and Clark of the South" these two men were commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to find the headwaters of the Red River.
Who are Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis?
This teenage mother and member of the Shoshone tribe was essential to the mission's success, acting as an interpreter and a symbol of peace to the other tribes.
Who is Sacagawea?
While fighting the United States, this European superpower was simultaneously locked in a massive conflict against Napoleonic France.
What is Great Britain?
The U.S. paid this amount for the Louisiana Territory.
What is $15 Million Dollars?
This European country still influenced parts of region and was a concern for U.S. officials during exploration.
What is Spain?
Unlike Lewis and Clark, this expedition was intercepted and forced to turn back by soldiers from this European empire, which claimed the river belonged to Texas.
What is Spain?
Besides mapping, the expeditions primary goal was scientific; they sent back dozens of crates to Jefferson containing 178 new plants and the bones of this 'barking" Great Plains rodent.
What is the Prarie Dog?
This controversial British policy involved intercepting American merchant ships and forcing a "naturalized" Sailors into service for the Royal Navy.
What is impressment?
Control of this river was a major reason for why U.S. wanted the Louisiana Territory
What is the Mississippi River?
The expedition resulted in the discovery of what natural landform?
What are the Hot Springs?
The explorers' journey was made nearly impossible by this massive, 100-mile-long natural jam of dead trees and debris that blocked the river.
What is the Great Raft?
After reaching the Pacific Ocean, the Corps built this log fort near present-day Astoria, Oregon, to survive a brutal winter of rain and near-starvation.
What is Fort Clatsop?
After the British burned Washington D.C., they failed to capture this Maryland fort, an event witnessed and recorded in verse by Francis Scott Key.
What is Fort McHenry?
This expedition explored the newly acquired land from 1804 to 1806.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Like other early explorations, this expedition was part of this broader U.S. effort to expand and understand lands West of the original states.
What is westward expansion?
Because this expedition failed to find the border, the U.S. and Spain created this "no-man's-land" strip of territory to avoid starting a war.
What is the Neutral Strip?
Latin for Plants and Animals, Merriwether Lewis documented these things in his journal.
What is Flora and Fauna?
Signed in a neutral Belgian city in December 1814, this treaty officially ended the war but took weeks to be announced in the United States.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?