Multiple Choice
Which of the following doubled the size of the United States?
a. Missouri Compromise
b. New Orleans
c. Louisiana Purchase
d. Jackson Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
showing lack of fear
courageous
Became the capital city
Jefferson CIty
What were some of Jeffersons goals for the expedition?
find an easier water route
bring back written notes about plants and animals
meet American Indians
maps of the land
Where did president Jefferson want Lewis and Clark to travel?
a. from Texas to Mexico
b. from the Missouri River to the Mississippi River
c. from Missouri to Oregon
d. from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
What city was our first state capital?
a. St. Charles
b. Jefferson City
c. St. Louis
d. Kansas City
St. Charles
a journey for a specific purpose
expedition
Mary Easton Sibley
Who were the 2 people in charge of the expedition?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
What did Lewis and Clark's team see as they traveled the Missouri River?
a. lots and lots of people
b. amazing wild animals
c. all kinds of houses and huts
d. a passage to the Pacific Ocean
amazing wild animals
What was Zebulon Pike looking for?
a. Where the Mississippi River began
b. Louisiana Purchase
c. Earthquake
d. Land
Where the Mississippi River began!
a person who translates languages
Climbed a peak in the Rocky Mountains
Zebulon Pike
What were some of the challenges they faced living in the wilderness?
rain soaked their skin
bugs were bad
very hard to travel up the river in the current
hidden sandbars
underwater trees
What year did Missouri become a state?
a. 1819
b. 1870
c. 1776
d. 1821
1821
How did the expedition help people learn more about the west?
a. boats they traveled on
b. the people they saw
c. by bringing back important maps
d. where they slept
be bringing back important maps
a verbal consent
argument
In charge of Fort Osage
George Sibley
What happened in the New Madrid?
Earthquake in Dec. of 1811
Who is the person who opened a school for Indian children?
a. George Sibley
b. Sacagawea
c. George Crist
d. Mary Sibley
Mary Sibley
Why was New Orleans important for Americans?
a. shipped goods in and out of there
b. to trade fur
c. owned their land
d. hunt animals
shipped goods in and out of there
to settle am argument by each side giving up part of what they want
compromise
Took a steamboat up the Missouri River to Nebraska
Stephen Long
How did the Missouri Compromise help Missouri become a state?
Missouri could enter as a slave state if Maine entered as a free state
What was the name of Clark's African American slave?
a. Lewis
b. York
c. Jefferson
d. Meriwether
York