Lewis and Clark Internet Hunt
Find out more about the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by using Internet sites to answer these questions. Take time after you find each answer to read more interesting information at each site about this important event in American history.
Louisiana Purchase1. From what country was the Louisiana Territory purchased?
2. How much did it cost?
3. How large was the land area?
4. Who was the leader of France who needed the money from the Louisiana Purchase to pay for the war he was fighting in Europe?
5. What did the Louisiana Purchase do to the land size of the United States?
1. On the back of your paper, sketch a pirogue. What is another name for a pirogue? How large were pirogues?
2. On the back of your paper, sketch a keelboat. Who used keelboats? How large were keelboats? What did keelboats carry?
1. Look at the map. What part of the expedition took place on the Ohio River? How can you tell?
2. Where did the actual exploration of the Louisiana Purchase begin? How can you tell?
1. Name some of the wildlife that was encountered on the expedition.
2. Choose one animal that was a problem for the Corps of Discovery? Why was it a problem?
1. Where and when was Lewis born?
2. What position did Lewis hold in Jefferson's administration?
3. What did Lewis learn at the Mandan villages?
4. When and how did Lewis die?
1. Where and when was Clark born?
2. How did Clark first meet Lewis?
3. What group of people did Clark work with in the years after the expedition?
1. What tribe did Sacagawea belong to? Which tribe kidnapped her? Who married her?
2. What value was Sacagawea to the expedition?
3. Who was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau? What eventually happened to him?
4. What did Lewis hope to get from the Shoshone Indians?
5. Who was the first Shoshone that the expedition met?
1. How many miles did Lewis and Clark travel all together?
2. How long did the expedition last?
3. What are some topics that Lewis and Clark wrote in their journals that helped Americans know what the west was like?
4. What was one important thing they did not find?
5. Did Jefferson consider their mission a success?
If you finish all the questions early, go to Into the Unknown, a choose your own adventure type story about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.