SS Chapter 3 Review

The Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado came to Nebraska in search of...

• beavers for their fur

• cities made of gold

• people to sign treaties

What was one of the most important resources explorers found in Nebraska?

• wheat

• oil

• fur

• timber

The word Nebraska comes from the Otoe word "Nibraskier," which means...

• animal land

• higher up

• large river

• flat water

What is one reason so many American Indians died from European diseases?

• moving around to different villages

• trading with many other tribes

• had no doctors to heal sick people

• they had never faced such illnesses before

What is an expedition?

• a voyage or journey

• a place to sleep

• a large building

• a large gathering of people

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

• a group of explorers who studied plants and animals

• a piece of land that doubled the size of the United States

• an important fur trader

• an important fort in Nebraska

Lewis and Clark led an expedition across the frontier called...

• the Corps of Expeditions

• the Great Journey

• the Corps of Discovery

• the Great Expedition

Why did missionaries want to move west?

• to teach and share their religion with American Indians

• to trap and trade furs with the French

• to buy and sell goods with the American Indians

• to hunt buffalo for their meat and hides

What does the word "barter" mean?

• telling a story

• cooking food

• traveling somewhere

• trading goods and services

What is one reason for the battle between Villasur and the Pawnee?

• The French feared the Spanish would try to take the land they claimed

• The French made a treaty with the Pawnee and Otoe tribes

• The Spanish were worried the French would take their gold

• The French were worried the Spanish would take their gold