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The Expedition Leader to the west....
What is Meriwether Lewis
Who bought the Louisiana territory from France
What is Thomas Jefferson
How did Sacagawea help the expedition
what is Acting as a guide and translator
These steep landforms made traveling much harder than expected.
What are mountains?
one challenge the Lewis & Clark expedition faced.
what is harsh weather conditions
Difficult Geography
Dangerous Animals
Illness and Injury
Navigational Uncertainty
Who sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.?
What is Napoleon Bonaparte
How much did the Louisiana Purchase cost
What is $15 Million
The mountains were full of deep snow when the Corps crossed this range.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Lewis & Clark didn’t have these, making it hard to know which way to go.
What are accurate maps?
What is one state that was part of the Louisiana Purchase
what is
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Minnesota (west of the Mississippi River)
New Mexico (northern portions)
Texas (northern portions)
New Orleans (areas west of the Mississippi River)
French-Canadian trader living among the Hidatsa; Sacagawea’s husband.
What is Toussaint Charbonneau
In what direction did the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S.
what is Expanding land west of the Mississippi
This season froze the explorers’ clothes into solid sheets of ice.
What is winter?
The men sometimes ran out of this main food source—especially in winter.
What is meat?
Enslaved man owned by William Clark; had no legal rights but played a major role.
What is York
Experienced frontier soldier and skilled mapmaker.
what is William Clark
In what year did the U.S get The Louisiana territory
What is 1803
Heavy rain and storms caused this to happen to the Missouri River
What is flooding?
Why was control of the Mississippi River important for American farmers?
what is farmers used the Mississippi River to ship their crops to markets, and it was the fastest and cheapest way to sell their goods.
Main workforce on the expedition
what is the Corps of Discovery Soldiers
Shoshone woman kidnapped as a child and later living among the Hidatsa.
what is Sacagawea
What country did the U.S get the Louisiana territory from
what is France
Lewis and Clark were sent to
What is to explore the new land and map a route to the Pacific?
Jefferson worried that buying the Louisiana Territory might break this rule about what the federal government is allowed to do.
What are the constitutional limits of federal power?
Name of Lewis’s Newfoundland Dog
what is Seaman