KS History Ch.3 Kansas As a Crossroads: Invasions and Encounters

The first American explorer to travel over land in Kansas who became lost in the territory claimed by Spain.

• William Becknell

• Zebulon Pike

• Stephen H. Long

• Stephen Austin

Member of the Delaware tribe who operated a ferry boat on the Kansas River.

• Annie Hudson Grinder

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Sitting Bull

• Annie Marshall Grinter

American explorer who published a map describing Kansas as the "Great Desert."

• Stephen H. Long

• Stephen F. Austin

• Zebulon Pike

• William Clark

Trader from Missouri who helped start the Santa Fe Trail.

• Forest Gump

• Todd McIntire

• William Becknell

• Stephen H. Long

U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson sent these explorers through the Louisiana Territory to find a water route that reached the Pacific Ocean.

• Charles Clark

• William Clark

• Merriweather Lewis

• Meriwether Lewis

Spanish explorer who traveled into central Kansas in search of the mythical city of gold, Quivira.

• Vasco Da Gama

• Franciso Vasquez de Coronado

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando De Soto

Franciso Vasquez de Coronado visited the village of what Indian Tribe?

• Deaware

• Kansa

• Osage

• Wichita

French explores and traders came to Kansas to?

• establish trade relationships with the Indians.

• convert the Indians to Christianity.

• stage a war with the Indians.

• fight the Americans for control of Kansas.

The description of Kansas as "The Great Desert" led Americans to think that Kansas would be?

• a great place to vacation.

• good land for a buffalo reserve.

• land that could be sold back to Europeans.

• a difficult place for Americans to settle, but a good place to relocate Indian tribes.

Which of the following are true? Select all that apply.

• Indian tribes forced to emigrate to Kansas were assigned to reservations.

• The Population of the United States did not grow until the 1970's.

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark seemed to like Kansas, mentioning that there was a variety of game and that the prairie was very beautiful.

• The Europeans brought new trade goods to the American Indians, but they also brought them new diseases.

• Generally, the relationship between American Indians living along the Oregon-California Trail and the immigrants moving west was one of cooperation.