Louisiana Purchase

In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte controlled

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Germany

• France

The members of the Lewis and Clark expedition were told to

• explore the Colorado River and remove all Indians from US land

• explore the Florida coastline and search for the Fountain of Youth

• explore the Missouri River and establish peaceful relations with the American Indians they encountered

• explore al lands east of the Mississippi River

Who was Toussaint Louverture?

• a former slave who became leader of St. Domingue after a slave revolt

• the king of France

• the US ambassador to France

• the Spanish official who secretly traded Louisiana to France

Some of the most important help received by Lewis and Clark came from

• Sacagawea

• Mauel de Godoy

• Toussaint Louverutre

• Robert Livingston

US leaders were concerned about French ownership of Louisiana because

• they thought that the British had the right to own and occupy Louisiana

• they had already made an agreement to buy Louisiana from the Spanish

• they feared that the French would persuade Louisiana Indian tribes to attack the Americans

• it could block future US expansion westward and interfere with trade along the Mississippi River

When Lewis and Clark met the Shoshone, the Shoshone

• gave them instructions on how to find the Atlantic Ocean

• captured and imprisoned them

• gave them horses and a guide to lead the across the Rocky Mountains

• killed most of the members of the expedition

The US bought Louisiana from France in 1803 at the cost of

• $1 million

• $15 million

• $10 million

• $100 million

How was the Lewis and Clark expedition successful?

• learned about Western lands

• found a river route to the Pacific Ocean

• discovered gold

• defeated the Spanish

The Louisiana Purchase

• did not occur until Congress passed an amendment approving it

• doubled the size of the US

• offered the US an opportunity to expand its commercial and manufacturing industries

• tripled the size of the US

Zebulon Pike was sent to

• spy on British forts in the southwest

• find the Red River's starting point

• locate the Mississippi River

• sign a treaty with the Mandan