Chapter 2 Missouri Settlement and Statehood-lesson 3

What was St. Missouri known for after Missouri became a state?

• St. Joseph was a quiet town for peace and relaxation.

• St. Joseph was a noisy cattle-trading town where thousands of cattle were bought before being taken westward.

• St. Joseph was a manufacturing center where factories produced furniture, clothing, and iron goods.

The town of Kansas City in Missouri originally began as what?

• A busy manufacturing center where factories produced clothing, iron goods, and furniture.

• A station that carried mail between St. Joseph and Sacramento, California.

• A trading post in western Missouri, where the Kansas River flows into the Missouri River.

Which important form of transportation in Missouri was completed in 1859?

• Steamboats

• The Ford automobile

• A railroad extending from Hannibal to St. Joseph

What three things were carried on steamboats on the Missouri River by 1850?

• supplies, mail, and settlers

• Automobiles, Native Americans, and iron goods

• cattle, clothing, and meat

What 3 things were beginning to be built in the 1800's to serve Missouri's growing population?

• Nothing could be built because most people had no money

• Libraries, schools, and churches

• arcades, fast food restaurants, and amusement parks

A formerly enslaved person, who lived in St. Louis and opened the first African Baptist Church for free and enslaved African Americans was...

• George Sibley

• Alexander McNair

• John Berry Meachum

What did John Berry Meachum do to get around the law stating that it was illegal to teach free African Americans?

• He taught them in his own home.

• He opened a "Freedom School" on a boat in the middle of the Mississippi River.

• He encouraged free African Americans to go westward in hopes that they could find a school there.

Two of the most used forms of transportation used to move goods in Missouri in the 1850's were...

• Railroads and steamboats

• automobiles, and by mule back

• horseback, and automobile

In 1818 what helped solve the problem about free and slave states?

• Missouri territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

Two reasons John Scott asked Congress to make Missouri a state in 1818 were...

• People in Missouri wanted a stronger voice in Congress, and the benefits of United States citizenship.

• People in Missouri all wanted enslaved African Americans to be free, and to be able to attend school

• Missouri Territory had been part of the original Louisiana Purchase, and many people in the Missouri Territory were European immigrants.