Explorers, Traders, and Missionaries

Explorers, Traders, and Missionaries

Spanish Explorers

• looking for gold

• rode on horses

• as far north as Kansas

French Explorers

• land

• no gold......beaver

• traded

• diseases

• Peace with French

Multiple Choice

Who owned the land that would be Nebraska at this time?

• Spanish

• French

• United States

America grows

• French own most of the land around the Mississippi

• Jefferson wants to buy the land

• US had to borrow money to buy it

Lewis and Clark

• Corps of Discovery

• Explored the Missouri 
  

• Met with native leaders
  

• Council Bluff

• Sacagawea

Multiple Select

What did Lewis and Clark send back to Thomas Jefferson?

• Prairie Dog

• dinosaur bone

• plants

• maps

Fur trade

• Beaver

• Peter Sarpy

• Manuel Lisa

• winter fur

• Steamboats

Open Ended

Why was beaver fur so popular?

Fort Atkinson

• military fort

• first school

• first library

• brickyard

• bowling alley

Indian Agents

• white men to keep peace

• forced Natives off land

• promises and threats

• translated

Open Ended

Read Native Cultures Change on pg 118. Name a change (good or bad), that made Native Cultures change?

The Missionary Spirit

• Religion would make life better

• The Merrills 

• Pawnee

Open Ended

Many Native Children did not like school. Why?