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Natives and Goals
100
The Native American woman who helped the expedition translate with other natives, gather herbs and roots, and get horses from the Shoshone.
What is Sacagawea?
100
The river Thomas Jefferson thought connected to the Pacific to create a "Northwest Passage"
What is the Missouri River?
100
The fort where the Corp trained BEFORE departing on the expedition.
What is Fort Wood near St. Louis, Missouri?
100
This tribe helped the Expedition get horses to cross the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Shoshone?
200
The French guide who helped Lewis and Clark (but let's be real here, his wife was the best support for the Corp)!
What is Toussaint Charbonneau?
200
When the Corp reaches the fork in the Missouri River and discovers a waterfall on one of them, they name the other fork in the river this after Lewis' cousin.
What is the Marias?
200
The Corp builds a fort and stays near some friendly natives for 5 months of their FIRST terrible winter traveling here.
What is Fort Mandan?
200
This tribe was not friendly and almost attacked the Corp.
What is the Teton Sioux?
300
The title of who up most of the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
What are soldiers?
300
What is the name of the large river in the Pacific Northwest where the Corp traveled and William Clark wrote, "Ocean in view! O! The joy!"?
What is Columbia River?
300
The Expedition built a fort near the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon called this.
What is Fort Clatsop?
300
This tribe is where Sacagawea's was from before she was kidnapped as a girl?
What is the Shoshone?
400
Name of the ruler who sold the Louisiana Purchase to Thomas Jefferson and what country he is from.
Napoleon Bonaparte, the Ruler of France in 1800
400
Name a river on the west side of the Rocky Mountains BESIDES the Columbia that Lewis and Clark traveled on or across?
What is the Snake or Clearwater?
400
Who were the Natives that helped the Corp during their first winter traveling and WHY did the Corp want to stay near them?
What is the Mandan and because they were friendly/helpful?
400
What was the original goal of the Expedition?
What is to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean?
500
Who was an Army officer? Lewis or Clark?
What is both of them!
500
Why was navigating the rivers on the west side of the Rocky Mountains easier than their initial travel on the Missouri River?
What is they has crossed the Continental Divide OR rivers flow to the west, so they were floating downstream instead of trying to go upstream?
500
What happened to Fort Clatsop when the Expedition returned home after a SOGGY winter staying there?
What is gave it to the Clatsop tribe?
500
Name two positive outcomes of the Lewis and Clark expedition that made it a success even though they discovered there is no "Northwest Passage."
What is established relationships with natives, learned about plants and animals, made maps, information about land?