Louisiana Purchase Check-In

What president bought the Louisiana Territory?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

What river made the United States want to buy the Louisiana Territory?

• Missouri

• Mississippi

• Ohio

• Delaware

What city at the end of the Mississippi River did the United States want to take control of by purchasing the Louisiana Territory?

• Charleston

• Dallas

• New Orleans

• New York

What was the name of the French leader that sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• George William Frederick
  (King George III)

• Louis Stanislas Xavier

  (King Louis XVIII)

• Maximilien Robespierre

How much did President Jefferson buy the Louisiana Territory for?

• $10 million

• $15 million

• $20 million

• $50 million

President Jefferson almost didn't buy the Louisiana Territory because

• the British tried to buy it first.

• Indigenous Americans lived there first.

• the Constitution didn't say he could buy land.

• Congress didn't want the land.

What two people were hired to lead an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory?

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

• James Monroe and Robert Livingston

• Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson

• Sacajawea and Toussaint Charbonneau

The Lewis and Clark Expedition explored all the way to the _________ and back again!

• Rocky Mountains

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Appalachian Mountains

What indigenous American woman was hired to act as a guide and translator for Lewis and Clark?

• Sarah Winnemucca

• Nanye-hi (Nancy Ward)

• Pocahontas

• Sacajawea

The purchase of the Louisiana Territory

• doubled the size of the young United States.

• made the relationship between the United States and Indigenous Americans better.

• bankrupted the young United States.

• caused Thomas Jefferson to be impeached as president.