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Unit 4 Explorers

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was president during the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

William Clark

d)

Meriwether Lewis

2.

Why did the Americans fight in the Revolutionary War?

a)

They wanted tea

b)

They just felt like it

c)

They did not like England

d)

They wanted freedom

3.

Why did the Corps of Discovery go on an expedition? (Pick 3)

a)

To explore new land

b)

To meet the Indians

c)

To find Sacagawea

d)

To study plants and animals

4.

What is an explorer?

a)

Someone who travels to unknown places

b)

Someone who traps animals and sells their pelts

c)

Someone who travels to teach his or her religion to others

d)

A group of people searching the Louisiana Purchase

5.

What were traders?

a)

Someone who joins your side for a purpose

b)

Someone who travels to unknown places

c)

Someone who traps animals and sells their pelts

d)

The President who bought the Louisiana Purchase for the United States

6.

What is a treaty?

a)

Trading what you have for what you want

b)

A journey taken for a purpose

c)

An agreement between two groups

d)

Someone who joins your side for a purpose

7.

What is an ally?

a)

Trading what you have for what you want

b)

A journey taken for a purpose

c)

Someone who travels to teach his or her religion to others

d)

Someone who joins your side for a purpose

8.

What is the Corps of Discovery?

a)

A group of people searching the Louisiana Purchase

b)

Lewis Meriwether and William Clark

c)

York

d)

The President who bought the Louisiana Purchase for the Untied States

9.

What is a missionary?

a)

Someone who traps animals and sells their pelts

b)

Someone who joins your side for a purpose

c)

Someone that everyone likes

d)

Someone who travels to teach his or her religion to others

10.

What is an expedition?

a)

Someone who travels to unknown places

b)

A journey taken with a purpose

c)

An agreement between two groups

d)

Trading what you have for what you want

11.

What does it mean to barter?

a)

Trading what you have for what you want

b)

To ask someone a question

c)

To get your hair done

d)

To take a journey for a purpose

12.

Who is Thomas Jefferson? (Pick 3)

a)

He joined a side for a purpose

b)

He was a president

c)

He bought the Louisiana Purchase for the United States

d)

He wrote the Declaration of Independence

13.

What was the result of Stephen Long writing that the plains was "a Great Desert"?

a)

People went on a steamboat

b)

People traded animal pelts

c)

People avoided moving there

d)

People settled in Nebraska

14.

What was the result of Lewis and Clark's journey? (Pick 3)

a)

They studied plants and animals

b)

They created maps

c)

They met the French

d)

They met the Native Americans

15.

What was the result of Coronado's exploration of America? (Pick 3)

a)

He claimed land

b)

He brought over horses

c)

He did not find gold

d)

He found gold