Dogs
What is an open, free land where few people have settled?
frontier
Who is the woman who helped guide the men through the Louisiana territory?
Sacagawea
Boonesborough
Wilderness Road
What is the name of the state the Daniel Boone explored?
Kentucky
Rocky Mountains
What is a person who travels to an unknown land and settles there called?
pioneer
What is the name of a person who travels to an unknown land and settles there called?
a pioneer
Sacagawea was part of what Indian tribe?
Shoshone tribe
Thomas Jefferson called the group of explorers the what?
Corps of Discovery
After Sacagawea died, who took care of her children?
William Clark and his wife
For early explorers, the easiest way to travel was to follow what?
rivers or streams
After the expedition, the president chose Meriwether Lewis to the the what of the Louisiana Territory?
governor
The group exploring the Louisiana Territory saw what ocean as the reached the west coast?
Pacific Ocean
What is the height, or elevation, above sea level called?
altitude
Kentucky was purchased from what Indians?
Cherokee
The group chosen to explore the new territory of the United States was called what?
Corps of Discovery
Who spent his life as a circuit-riding preacher to the Midwest?
Peter Cartwright
List one way Sacagawea helped the men while they explored the new territory:
led them in the right direction, save important papers and tools when the boat overturned, found fruits and vegetables, helped the Indians know the men came in peace, used plants to make medicine
Who is the president that purchased the Louisiana Territory?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the name of the rock formation named for Sacagawea's son?
Pompey's pillar
What is a group of volunteers that assist a regular army called?
militia
Meriwether Lewis was a neighbor to what president?
Thomas Jefferson
In an election for Illinois legislature, Peter Cartwright ran against who?
Abraham Lincoln
The group that explored the Louisiana Territory build what fort? named after the Indians near them
Fort Clatsop