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The president who sent Lewis & Clark on their expedition.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The direction that the group traveled (N, S, E, W).
What is West?
Believe it or not. St. Louis is not the capital of this state, Jefferson City is.
What is Missouri?
This season ended up being the most dangerous for the crew to survive through.
What is winter?
Following the Lewis & Clark expedition, thousands of Americans began heading out West to try and find this product in California.
What is gold?
Who is Sacagawea?
The ocean that Lewis & Clark was seeking to reach.
What is the Pacific?
Olympia, not Seattle, is the capital of the state where they reached the Pacific Ocean.
What is Washington?
One of the most dangerous animals that came face to face with Lewis and Clark was the _______.
What is the grizzly bear?
Sadly, we won't be taking a field trip to this former president's hometown this year. But, we will discuss his importance on his birthday, Feb. 12th.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first names of Lewis & Clark.
Who are Meriwether & William?
The mountain range that Lewis & Clark had to pass through.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Boise.
What is Idaho?
The Rocky Mountains were the most dangerous part of the group's journey. Luckily, this tribe supplied Lewis & Clark with horses.
Who are the Shoshones?
Thanks to Lewis & Clark's findings, thousands of Americans would later head west using the ______ Trial. We will begin learning about this trail next month.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This was the name of the baby boy who joined the expedition.
The name for relatively flat lands. Lewis & Clark traveled through miles of these before reaching mountains.
What are plains?
Bismarck.
What is North Dakota?
Only one member of the Corps died during the expedition. He died from this cause.
What is a burst appendix?
Next week, we will begin learning about this war (our 2nd war fought with Britain).
What is the War of 1812?
The French emperor who sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Napoleon?
The name of the river that Lewis & Clark used to travel when the began their journey.
What is the Missouri River?
Salem is the capital of this West Coast state. (It's also the name of a Massachusetts city where infamous witch trials took place.)
What is Oregon?
Our Edpuzzle revealed that this was the biggest danger that Lewis and Clark faced.
What is starvation/running out of food.
In a few weeks, we will begin learning about the Trail of _____. This was a dangerous, sad journey that thousands of Native Americans had to take after being removed from their lands in the East.
What is the Trail of Tears.