Corps of Discovery Members
The man commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to find a pathway to the Pacific.
Meriwether Lewis
The Corps of Discovery wintered here before leaving for the Pacific in early 1805.
Fort Mandan
This Shoshone young woman is credited for making peace with native tribes, assisting in navigating along the journey, helping find edible plants, and saving equipment and journals from being lost in the river.
Sacagawea
These immigrants came to America to escape the famine caused by potato blight.
The Irish
This American style of building used 2"x4" and long pieces of lumber to create the entire frame of a building from foundation to roof.
The African slave of William Clark who was treated as a free man on the expedition and was a fascination to many Native Americans.
York
The Corps of Discovery spent more than four weeks in canoes on this river.
Columbia River
The Corps of Discovery bartered for these important animals needed to cross the Rocky Mountains.
Horses
These immigrants came to America to escape deadly winters and a tyrant prince who feared revolution.
Germans
These "Palaces of the People" were grand American buildings open to the public.
Hotels
This 22 year old man was the only Corps member to die on the expedition. Clark wrote, "This man at all times gave us proofs of his firmness and Determined resolution to doe Service to his Countrey and honor to himself"
Sgt. Charles Floyd
Thomas Jefferson requested that the Captain Lewis and his expedition find a waterway from this river to the Pacific.
Missouri River
This youngest member of the party is pictured on a $1 coin, was supported by William Clark, and lived in Auburn, California for many years.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (Pompey)
This school for young children was popularized by the German immigrants.
Kindergarten
This enterprising American invented the cotton gin and advocated for the "Uniformity System" of interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
This French Canadian trapper joined the expedition as an interpreter.
Toussaint Charbonneau
This city was the official launching point for the expedition in 1804.
St. Louis
Name at least two things Lewis and Clark did that caused some tribes to think they were gods.
Make fire from heaven (magnifying glass)
Turn fire blue with powder
Treat illnesses and wounds
Appear after "thunder" and the white crane fell from the sky
The Irish immigrants helped to build this 363 mile ditch from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
Erie Canal
Pioneers worked to create and send out this product to attract people to new cities.
Newspapers
"A one eyed French riverman whose fiddling was to be the life of the party."
(Pierre) Cruzatte
The Corps of Discovery worked in the rain to build this structure to winter near the Pacific Ocean.
Fort Clatsop
This term means to carry a boat from one body of navigable waters to another.
Portage
In this city the Irish gained political power through both elections and force.
New York City
The two primary reasons that platform building has replaced balloon framing.
1. Fire hazard
2. The scarcity and expense of long pieces of lumber.