WorksheetsMissouri Explorers Quiz
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following is NOT a reason Europeans came to the New World?
More land
The promise of gold
Many diseases like smallpox and measles
Who were the first explorers to see the riverbanks of the Missouri River?
De Sotto and La Salle
Marquette and Jolliet
Coronado and Cortez
What was the name of the first French settlement in Missouri?
Ste. Genevieve
Missouri City
Kansas City
What nearly doubled the size of the United States?
Missouri Compromise
Louisiana Purchase
Jackson Purchase
Who founded St. Louis as a French town?
Meriwether Lewis
Pierre LaClede
Marquette and Jolliet
Frontier means
Employed by fur company to transport goods
Land at the edge of settled places
wears calico, beaver hats, and buckskin
Merchant is
Small pox, whooping cough, measles
Buys and sells goods from faraway places
A place ruled by another country
A voyageur is
Wears calico, beaver hats, and buckskin
Employed by a fur company to transport goods
land at the edge of settled places
Diseases
land at the edge of settled places
small pox, whooping cough, measles
Wears calico, beaver hats, and buckskin
Colony
A place ruled by another country
land at the edge of settled places
Frenchman
Wears calico, beaver hats, and buckskin
Buys and sells goods from faraway places
