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The first residents of Missouri were the...
The Mound Builders (Native Americans)
Who were the first explorers to reach Missouri?
Marquette and Jolliet
Robert de la Salle claimed a large piece of land for France. What did he call the piece of land?
Louisiana
In 1803, President Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for how much $$$?
$15 million
Who did Thomas Jefferson send to explore the new land after the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
The Missouri Territory requested to join the United States as a ________ state in 1818.
slave
Congress came up with the ___________. Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
When the Civil War began, Missouri was considered a “border state”. What does “border state” mean?
a border state was a slave state that did not leave the Union
The North and the South were fighting about what?
Slavery
Who is a famous author who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series of books
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who was a famous artist whose paintings showed ordinary people doing regular things
Thomas Hart Benton
Who was a famous scientist and inventor who helped farmers and came up with lots of ways to use peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Who was a famous author who wrote their books under a fake name. They wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain
Did Missouri have more soldiers fight for the Union (North) or the Confederacy (South)
The Union (North) had 110,000 Missouri soldiers
What is the name of the trail that people used to move out west?
The Oregon Trail! (Santa Fe Trail is also correct)
The Pony Express created to ___________ ___________ faster.
deliver the mail
