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WorksheetsMissouri History
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Historians think the _____ were the first people to live in what is now Missouri.
Osage
Mound Builders
French
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were _____.
sent by Jefferson to explore the west
the first European explorers to reach what is now Missouri
men who mined for lead and salt
Robert de la Salle claimed a large area of land along the Mississippi River for ____ and called it Louisiana after the king.
America
Spain
France
The ____ was purchased from France for $15 million.
Louisiana Territory
Gulf of Mexico
Port of New Orleans
The U.S. made the Louisiana Purchase in _____.
1620
1803
1821
The Louisiana Purchase became all or part of ____ states.
8
12
15
Thomas Jefferson was _____ when the Louisiana Purchase was made.
President
Governor
an explorer
Who went on an expedition to the West to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the land?
Lewis and Clark
de la Salle and Jefferson
Bonaparte and Charbonneau
What was the Pony Express?
a mail delivery service
a group who explored the West
a yearly horse race
The Pony Express ran for ____.
less than two years
five years
over ten years
The ____ Compromise admitted Missouri to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri
Slave/Free
Equal
Who served as interpreters for Lewis and Clark?
Jefferson and Franklin
Bonaparte and Marquette
Sacagawea and Charbonneau
What started in Independence, Missouri?
the Louisiana Purchase
the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail
the Pony Express
Early French settlers hoped to find gold and silver when they came to what is now Missouri. They actually found ____.
lead and salt
diamonds
copper and turquoise
Missouri became the 24th state on August 10, ____.
1803
1821
1850
The Osage lived in what is now ____ Missouri.
north
east
southwest
