Westward Expansion
In the 1760s, this is where the American frontier was.
What is west of the Appalachian Mountains?
The location (city,state) that begin the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
This person begin the explorations of the lands in the West.
Who is Daniel Boone?
This is what each explore was ordered to do on their expeditions.
The number of years that Lewis believed it would be before people would follow the route he explored.
What is 10 to 12 years?
Who inhabited land west of the Appalachian Mountains?
What are Native Americans?
The location that was the final destination of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The interpreter who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who is Sacagawea ?
The resource that George Hunter hoped to identify in the Louisiana Territory.
What is Iron?
Lewis believed Clark was this when it came to contributions of the expedition.
What is an equal contributor?
What is exerted great services to the expedition?
The narrow path that was traveled by Daniel Boone and his crew during their expedition. (now known as)
What is the Cumberland Gap?
The rivers (two) that was traveled by Dunbar-Hunter expedition that caused issues.
What is the Black River and Ouachita River?
The tribe that Sacagawea belongs to.
Who is the Shoshone Tribe?
These people ended the Red River Expedition.
Who is Spanish troops?
The reasons Lewis wanted the Mandan chief to come with him to Washington?
What is to translate and answer questions Jefferson may have and his knowledge of the territory?
The road Daniel Boone and his crew made through the mountains.
What is the Wilderness Road?
The land mark that Lewis and Clark made it to in the Rocky Moutains.
What is the Continental Divide?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is an Evergreen branch?
These are the reasons Hunter mentions for the expedition.
What is fix a permanent boarder with Spanish territory, assess the value of the land, and identify valuable natural resources?
In 1787, Congress passed this, which divided the Northwest Territory into districts.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The interest points (two) of the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition.
What is the Ouachita River and the Natural Hot Springs?
These 4 men explored the Southwest portions of the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Dunbar and Hunter and Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis?
This was what Hunter believed to be the primary benefit of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is acquisition of natural resources?
The skills that Hunter believes will make him useful to an expedition.
What is knows the language and culture of the French and Spanish. Knowledge of minerals and chemistry and experience of previous explorations and willingness to follow orders.