Lewis and Clark Expedition Overview

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Which land acquisition doubled the size of the United States?

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Louisiana Purchase

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President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory primarily to...

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Explore and map the territory/Find a Northwest Passage

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A major reason President Thomas Jefferson supported the Louisiana Purchase was because it:

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Control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans

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Which river did the Corps of Discovery follow at the beginning of the expedition?

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The Missouri

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What geographic feature is elevated but has a flat top / surface? The Corps of Discovery saw these as they transitioned from the Great Plains region to the Rocky Mountains.

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Plateus

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"Ocean in view'! What ocean did the Corps of Discovery reach at the end of the Columbia River?"

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The Pacific

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What year was the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803?

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2003

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Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. A formidable military leader, he turned the colony into a country governed by former enslaved people as a nominal French protectorate and made himself ruler of the entire island of Hispaniola. What country did he create?

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Haiti

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The mouth of the Mississippi River forms wetlands known as this geographic feature

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Delta

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This Shoshone woman helped the Corps of Discovery immensely:

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Sacagawea