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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis thought that buffalo hair might produce

2. Andre Michaux was selected to lead an expedition west until Jefferson discovered that

3. Why did expectations soar during this phase of the trip?

4. Mriwether Lewis gathered his specimens by

5. The Captains inadvertently caused trouble by giving the three Indian chiefs

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Lewis' beloved iron-frame boat?

2. Of what, exactly, was the "great father" trying to convince the Indians, under Jefferson's instructions?

3. Why was progress down the Ohio River so abominably slow?

4. Was Sacagawea treated with the respect she was due?

5. Why was Jefferson so interested in exploring the West?

6. Why did it take so long for Lewis' keelboat to be built?

7. What was ironic about the government's response to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?

8. Why was Lewis angry with Drouillard and Shields after seeing a young Indian?

9. What is Lewis' goal in trying to make peace between the Arikaras and the Mandans? Why does he involve himself in their dispute?

10. Discuss the large keelboat and its journey back to St. Louis.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sacagawea was only one of Charbonneau's wives. Research and write an exploratory essay on Charbonneau:

1) Did the Charbonneau family continue to thrive in the region of the Mandan camps?

2) Are there still Charbonneau's living there now?

3) Was it a custom within the Shoshones to have two wives, or did Charbonneau think this up on his own?

Essay Topic 2

Write an narrative essay about food and the Lewis and Clark expedition, and also speculate on the following:

1) What was principal diet of the expedition members, and why?

2) Why did they tend toward eating some foods and not others, besides the availability factors?

3) Why did they rely on purchased dried fish from the Indians, rather than catching their own fresh fish?

4) Can you think of any other foods they might have taken advantage of during sparse periods?

Essay Topic 3

How would it have influenced Meriwether Lewis if he could have seen into the future? Write an informal essay about what changed after his death, such as.

1) Jefferson did not realize that the means of transportation would become faster and more reliable than travel by horse.

2) He did not know that Jefferson would expect him to take complete responsibility for publishing his scientific journals.

3) Some of Jefferson's wild inventions would become reality.

4) The country actually would become one nation under one government.

5) The Indians would be subdued and all but wiped out by the government.

6) There would be many thousands of Americans moving west and settling.

7) Britain and France would no longer occupy parts of America.

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