Early Missouri Inhabitants
Missouri's first residents
Who were the Mound Builders?
People that came to missouri to set up communities
What are French People?
The capital of the Missouri Territory
What is Jefferson city?
A Compromise that said Missouri would enter the union as a slave state if Maine entered as a free state
What is The Missouri Compromise?
A system that used horses and their riders to deliver mail
What was the Pony Express?
A large group of hunters and farmers
Who were the Osage indians?
The first French Explorers to reach what is now Missouri
Who were Marquette and Jolliet?
The first Missouri settlement
What is Ste. Genevieve?
The 24th State to enter the U.S.
What is Missouri?
Two trails that went through Missouri and helped the country with trade and expansion
What were the Oregon and Santa Fe trails?
An animal that the Osage Indians hunted
What are deer?
What is a bear?
What are Bison?
A man who claimed area around the Mississippi River as belonging to France and named it after King Louis XIV
Who was Robert de la Salle?
People brought to Missouri to mine for gold
What were African Slaves?
The state that wanted to enter the Union as a slave state, throwing off the balance of free and slave states
What is Missouri?
He sold Thomas Jefferson the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A crop that the Osage Indians grew
What is corn?
What is squash?
What are pumpkins?
What are beans?
People who talked about animals and natural resources, and that there might be gold and silver in the area.
WHo were trappers and miners?
The people Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from
Who are the French?
The reason the louisiana purchase was important to the US
It doubled the size of the United States.
It gave the United States control of the Mississippi River ports.
It allowed for westward expansion.
The price paid for the Louisiana Territory.
What is 15 million dollars?
This was the crop that allowed the mound builders to stay in one location.
What is corn?
President Thomas Jefferson sent them to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Native Americans began to lose their homes and land.
What was more settlers coming to the Missouri Territory?
The official nickname of Missouri.
What is the Show Me State?
This monument symbolizes the Gateway to the West.
What is the St. Louis Arch?