About Lewis and Clark
The man with the fiery red hair, rough and friendly.
Who is William Clark?
The young Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
The name of the Indian Tribe who performed a scalp dance and had tense negotiations at the beginning of the expedition.
What is the Sioux Indians?
Canoes were sunk with this object.
What is stones?
The amount of members on the expedition.
What is 33?
The president who sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The baby Sacagawea carried with her on the expedition.
Who is Jean Baptiste Charbonneau?
Nickname: Pomp
The ocean Lewis and Clark hoped to reach.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The type of small boats Lewis and Clark used to travel on rivers.
What are canoes?
The fort Lewis and Clark named after a U.S. president.
What is Fort Mandan?
The man who served as the expedition's principal scientist and leader.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
The Native American tribe Sacagawea belonged to.
What is the Shoshone tribe?
The year Lewis and Clark returned from their expedition.
What is 1806?
The 55 foot long, flat-bottomed boat the expedition that could carry 21 tons.
What is a keelboat?
The number of army men who died during the expedition.
What is one?
The name of the group of explorers led by Lewis and Clark.
The skill Sacagawea used to help the expedition communicate with Native American groups.
What is intepreting/translating?
The name of the large land purchase that made the expedition possible.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The group of soldiers, hunters, interpreters, and others who traveled with Lewis and Clark.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
The amount of time it took Lewis and Clark to travel up the Missouri River before reaching their winter camp in 1804
What is three months?
The main reason President Jefferson sent the expedition west.
What is to explore the new lands and find a route to the Pacific Ocean?
The important resource Sacagawea helped the expedition obtain.
What are horses or navigation?
The name of the mountain range the expedition had to cross on its way west.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The strategy crew would use when the water was shallow and the current was too slow.
What is pushing the boat along with long poles?
These two unusual supplies were among the expedition's remaining provisions when the men were desperately hungry.
What is candlewax and bear grease?