WorksheetsChapter 2 Missouri Settlement and Statehood-lesson 3
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was St. Missouri known for after Missouri became a state?
St. Joseph was a quiet town for peace and relaxation.
St. Joseph was a noisy cattle-trading town where thousands of cattle were bought before being taken westward.
St. Joseph was a manufacturing center where factories produced furniture, clothing, and iron goods.
The town of Kansas City in Missouri originally began as what?
A busy manufacturing center where factories produced clothing, iron goods, and furniture.
A station that carried mail between St. Joseph and Sacramento, California.
A trading post in western Missouri, where the Kansas River flows into the Missouri River.
Which important form of transportation in Missouri was completed in 1859?
Steamboats
The Ford automobile
A railroad extending from Hannibal to St. Joseph
What three things were carried on steamboats on the Missouri River by 1850?
supplies, mail, and settlers
Automobiles, Native Americans, and iron goods
cattle, clothing, and meat
What 3 things were beginning to be built in the 1800's to serve Missouri's growing population?
Nothing could be built because most people had no money
Libraries, schools, and churches
arcades, fast food restaurants, and amusement parks
A formerly enslaved person, who lived in St. Louis and opened the first African Baptist Church for free and enslaved African Americans was...
George Sibley
Alexander McNair
John Berry Meachum
What did John Berry Meachum do to get around the law stating that it was illegal to teach free African Americans?
He taught them in his own home.
He opened a "Freedom School" on a boat in the middle of the Mississippi River.
He encouraged free African Americans to go westward in hopes that they could find a school there.
Two of the most used forms of transportation used to move goods in Missouri in the 1850's were...
Railroads and steamboats
automobiles, and by mule back
horseback, and automobile
In 1818 what helped solve the problem about free and slave states?
Missouri territory
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Two reasons John Scott asked Congress to make Missouri a state in 1818 were...
People in Missouri wanted a stronger voice in Congress, and the benefits of United States citizenship.
People in Missouri all wanted enslaved African Americans to be free, and to be able to attend school
Missouri Territory had been part of the original Louisiana Purchase, and many people in the Missouri Territory were European immigrants.
