Pre-Historic Missourians
Europeans Arrive
Louisiana Purchase/MO Becomes a State
Gateway to the West
Slavery and the Civil War
100
This period has evidence of people hunting mastodons and mammoths.
What is the Paleo Indian period?
100
This is why Marquette and Jolliet explored the Mississippi river.
What is they were looking for the Northwest passage?
100
The Corps of Discovery followed this river for the majority of their journey.
What is the Missouri river?
100
These were the first pioneers leaving Missouri for the frontier.
Who are Mountain Men?
100
This decision stated that the Supreme Court decided that Black people were property and not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
200
This period saw the growth and end to the city we call Cahokia.
What is the Mississippian period?
200
This is why Black enslaved people were first brought to Missouri.
What is to work in lead mines?
200
This is the form of transportation that Lewis finally decided to use to travel across the Louisiana Territory.
What is a keelboat?
200
This is the amount of people who lived in St. Louis in 1850.
What is about 75,000?
200
This law stated that those who helped slaves escape would be arrested, even in the North?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
300
This period saw the beginning of agriculture (growing of food and building permanent settlements).
What is the archaic period?
300
The country owned the Louisiana Territory from 1762-1800.
Who is Spain?
300
List one way why Sacagawea was so important to the expedition.
What is she spoke Native American languages, she knew the landscape and geography or her presence indicated that the expedition was peaceful?
300
This happened in California in 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
300
Because people supported different sides, life in Missouri was very ________ during the Civil War.
What is tense?
400
This period saw the development of the bow and arrow, with smaller and sharper projectile points.
What is the Woodland period?
400
Look at the map key below. This is the year the Louisiana Territory purchased by the United States.
What is 1803?
400
This Missouri Compromise stated that Missouri would become this kind of state.
What is a slave state?
400
These people delivered mail on horseback between St. Joseph, Missouri (very close to Independence) and Sacramento, California.
Who are Pony Express riders?
400
This document announced that all enslaved people in the Confederacy were now free. BUT, because Missouri was a slave state that did not join the Confederacy, enslaved people in Missouri were not granted their freedom.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Which period could this NOT have occurred in?
What is the Paleo Indian period?
500
This is one way St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve were alike and one way they were different.
What are:
Alike: French Settlers settled and traded in both area.
Different: Most of the people who lived in St. Louis worked as hunters, traders, or on river boats. Most of the people from Ste. Genevieve worked as miners.
500
The United States was fighting against this country in the War of 1812.
Who is Great Britain?
500
These are some of the supplies people would purchase in Missouri before beginning their journey west.
What are some travelers needed a better wagon for the long journey ahead. Everyone needed to store up on food supplies such as flour and rice. They all needed rope and tools, too.
500
This was one contribution the Meachums had toward making the lives of Black people better.
What is starting the first black congregational church in Missouri, starting a school for black people to learn to read and write, or helped black people escape to freedom in Illinois?