Western Expansion in America

most famous long-hunter

• Lewis and Clark
• Davy Crockett
• Kit Carson
• Daniel Boone

purchased from France for $15M, this acquisition

more than doubled the size of the United States

• Gadsden Purchase
• Oregon Treaty
• Louisiana Purchase
• Texas Annexation

former Army Captain who explored the Louisiana Purchase lands

• Zebulon Pike
• William Clark
• Thomas Jefferson
• Meriwether Lewis

served with Meriwether Lewis in the military and helped explore western lands

• William Clark
• John C. Frémont
• Zebulon Pike
• Thomas Jefferson

the expedition to explore the lands gained from the Louisiana Purchase

• Zebulon Pike's Journey
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• The Oregon Trail Expedition
• Pike Expedition

Shoshone woman who helped Lewis & Clark

• Meriwether Lewis
• Pocahontas
• William Clark
• Sacagawea

Western explorer who reached the summit of what is

now named "Pike's Peak."

• William Clark
• Zebulon Pike
• John C. Frémont
• Meriwether Lewis

Western explorer who wrote a journal that became the first

travel guide for travelers

• John C. Fremont

• Christopher Columbus
• Marco Polo
• Lewis and Clark

owner of the American Fur Company who established the first

major settlement in Oregon Country

• John Jacob Astor
• William Henry Ashley
• Marcus Whitman
• Robert Gray

fur trappers and traders were known as

• farmers and ranchers
• fishermen and merchants
• Mountain Men

• hunters and gatherers