Northwest Exploration
The waterway the first European explorers searched for because they came from ship-building countries
What is the Northwest Passage?
Shoshone Indian who helped the Corps of Discovery acquire horses
Who was Sacagawea?
People who are Native to a particular land
Member of the Corps of Discovery who later became a fur trapper
Who was John Colter?
Employed as a learner
What is an Apprentice?
The last part of North America to be mapped by explorers
What is Montana to the Pacific Ocean?
Geographer of almost 2 million square miles of the Northwest Region
Who was David Thompson?
What is the Headwaters?
Read about the exploration of Alexander Mackenzie to help prepare Meriwether Lewis for his western expedition
Who was President Thomas Jefferson?
An economic system in which privately owned businesses carry on trade for profit
What is Capitalism?
Fur companies of the time were in search of these particular furs
What are beaver pelts?
Eyewitness to Lewis's encounter with the Blackfeet on the Marias River
What was Wolf Calf?
What is a Confluence?
French Canadian who was not allowed to join the Corps of Discovery because he represented a different country
Who was Francois Larocque?
Distance north or south from the equator
What is Latitude?
The United States purchase of 800,000 square miles for $15 million and doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
First European to reach the Pacific traveling overland in the Northwest
What was Alexander Mackenzie?
A clock used for navigational purposes
What is a Chronometer?
Known by some as the greatest geographer of the West
Who was David Thompson?
Distance east or west from the central meridian
What is Longitude?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The first European visitor to present-day Yellowstone National Park
Who was John Colter?
A tool the find the angle between the sun and North Star and the horizon
What is a Sextant?
William Clark's slave who was part of the Corps of Discovery Expedition
Who was York?
They didn't pursue Lewis and his men on the Marias because they were just as frightened.
Who were the Blackfeet?