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American Explorers,105,4
\Which explorer explored the Cumberland Gap & Kentucky
\with Findlay & others 1767-69?\
Daniel Boone
James Adair
Thomas Walker
Patrick Henry
\Name the explorer who is famed for establishing the use
\Wilderness Trail.\
Daniel Boone
Thomas Walker
Richard Henderson
James Braddock
\Who was the explorer associated with the following event:
\Survived Braddock's 1755 expedition as a teamster?\
Daniel Boone
John Stewart
Thomas Hutchins
James Cook
\Who helped to open up the trans-Appalachian area to
\settlement?\
Daniel Boone
Victor Collet
David Thompson
John Ledyard
\Which explorer was born 1734, died 1820 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1769-79?\
Daniel Boone
Lachlan McGillivrary
Thomas Walker
Patrick Henry
\Which explorer discovered and named the Columbia River
\in 1792 after his ship?\
Robert Gray
Patrick Henry
Richard Henderson
Peter Puget
\Name the explorer who was the first American to circle
\the globe in 1787-90 and again in 1793?\
Robert Gray
Francis Drake
George R. Clark
James Cook
\Who was the explorer pioneered in the U.S. China fur trade
\from Oregon to the Orient?\
Robert Gray
Joseph Warin
Peter Puget
Lewis Meriwether
\Who provided the first support for U.S. claims to the
\North West Territory?\
Robert Gray
William Clark
John J. Astor
Donald Mackenzie
\Which explorer was born 1755, died 1806 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1787-92?\
Robert Gray
Andre Michoux
Zebulon M. Pike
Jim Bridger
\Which explorer explored the Missouri River to North Dakota
\with and was later superintendent of Indian Affairs.\
William Clark
Stephen H. Long
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph Warin
\Who were the explorers whose explorations stimulated a rush
\of trappers to the northwest in the early 1800s?\
Lewis & Clark
the Pattie brothers
Gray and Puget
Boone and Findlay
\What is the name of the Shoshoni girl who was instrumental
\in getting help from relatives for the first overland
\expedition to Oregon?\
Sacajawea
Michoux
Red Bird
Marias
\Which explorer was born 1770, died 1838 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1803-06?\
William Clark
John Ledyard
Stephen H. Long
Zebulon M. Pike
\Which explorer travelled west to the Pacific Ocean and
\the Columbia River and was later governor of Louisiana?\
Meriwether Lewis
Joseph Warin
Robert Gray
George R. Clark
\Name the explorer who was wounded on the return trip and
\who later died of gunshot wounds on the Natchez Trace?\
Meriwether Lewis
Jedediah Smith
Jim Bridger
David Thompson
\Which explorer was born 1774, died 1809 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1803-06?\
Meriwether Lewis
Thomas Walker
William Gilpin
John Evans
\Which of the following explorers was a secretary to a
\U.S. President?\
Lewis
Clark
Stewart
Pike
\Which explorer discovered a mountain in 1806, climbed
\Cheyenne Peak and labeled the Great American Desert?\
Zebulon Pike
John C. Fremont
Jim Bridger
William Clark
\Name the explorer who explored the upper Mississippi River
\in 1805 and thought Cass Lake was its headwaters?\
Zebulon Pike
Stephen H. Long
David Thompson
Alfred J. Miller
\Who hired Pike to locate the headwaters of the Red River
\and reach Santa Fe?\
Wilkinson
Burr
Jefferson
Fremont
\Who was employed to spy on the Spaniards in the Southwest
\and was captured by Don Malgares in 1807?\
Pike
Michoux
Walker
Wilkinson
\Which explorer was born 1779, died 1813 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1805-07?\
Zebulon Pike
Thomas Sparks
Donald Mackenzie
George Hunter
\Which trapper crossed the Teton Range and discovered
\the Yellowstone area though few believed his stories?\
John Colter
Jim Bridger
John Fitzpatrick
Jedediah Smith
\Who was the first of the Mountain Men?\
John Colter
Jedediah Smith
Jim Bridger
Aaron Burr
\Which explorer was born 1775, died 1813 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1803-1811?\
John Colter
James Cook
Lewis Meriwether
Jedediah Morse
\With which of the following events was John Colter
\associated?\
Explored Jackson's Hole and Pierre's Hole
Established the Wilderness Trail
Pioneer of the China trade
The first open trade with Santa Fe
\Which explorer was a partner in the Pacific Fur Company
\established to compete with Canadian fur companies?\
Wilson P. Hunt
Joe Walker
William D. Stewart
Alexander McKenzie
\Name the explorer who joined the Astor expedition with
\Mckenzie to set up a trading post on the Columbia R?\
Wilson P. Hunt
William Clark
Robert Gray
Peter Puget
\Who was the explorer who discovered an overland trail
\to Oregon south of the Lewis & Clark route?\
Hunt
Catlin
Hutchins
Nuttall
\Who sold Astoria to Canadian G. McTavish?\
Wilson P. Hunt
John J. Astor
Andre Michoux
James Wilkinson
\Which explorer was born c1782, died 1842 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1811-13?\
Wilson P. Hunt
Charbonneau
John Evans
Jedediah Morse
\Which explorer was employed by Ashley and explored
\the Dakota Territory to the Black Hills?\
Jedediah Smith
George Catlin
Jim Bridger
John C. Fremont
\Name the explorer who discovered South Pass westbound
\over the Continental Divide in 1824?\
Jedediah Smith
John Findlay
George R. Clark
Zebulon M. Pike
\Who explored Salt Lake to the Colorado River and across
\the Southwest to California in 1826?\
Jedediah Smith
John J. Astor
Thomas Hutchins
Thomas Sparks
\Who explored from California to Utah via the Great Basin
\in 1827?\
Jedediah Smith
Robert Gray
Alfred J. Miller
Joe Walker
\Which explorer was born 1798, died 1831 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1825-27?\
Jedediah Smith
James Mackay
John Evans
George Hunter
\With which of the following was Jedediah Smith associated?\
Killed by Comanches on the Santa Fe Trail
Killed by bear while trapping beaver
Killed in shoot out with rival trappers
Died of appendicitis on the Missouri River
\Which explorer helped open the Rocky Mountain territory
\while under Bonneville in 1832?\
Joseph R. Walker
Jim Bridger
Zebulon M. Pike
James Wilkinson
\Name the explorer who was first to see Yosemite and
\explored from Utah to California during 1833-34?\
Joseph R. Walker
Joseph Warin
George R. Clark
Charles Floyd
\Who guided the first wagon train to cross South Pass?\
Joseph R. Walker
John C. Fremont
Jim Bridger
Andre Michoux
\Who discovered gold at Prescott in the 1860s?\
Joseph R. Walker
John S. Newberry
George Sutter
William Dunbar
\Which explorer was born 1798, died 1876 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1831-1860?\
Joseph R. Walker
John Evans
Thomas Hutchins
Jedediah Morse
\Which explorer was captain of a U.S. expedition of 6
\ships sent to explore the Pacific during 1838-42?\
Charles Wilkes
Robert Gray
Robert Vancouver
Peter Puget
\Name the American explorer who proved that the Antarctic
\was a continent & explored Australia and other islands
\in 1838-42?\
Charles Wilkes
Captain Thorne
Wilson P. Hunt
Alfred J. Miller
\Who was the explorer who explored the Oregon coast and
\sent shore parties inland in search of a good harbor?\
Wilkes
Pike
Clark
Burr
\His information was largely ignored but his collection
\provided a foundation for the Smithsonian?\
Charles Wilkes
James Wilkinson
William D. Stewart
Victor Collet
\Which explorer was born 1798, died 1877 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1838-42?\
Charles Wilkes
Zebulon M. Pike
William Dunbar
Wilson P. Hunt
\Which explorer led a Government sponsored expedition to
\South Pass with 39 men in 1842-43 & continued on to
\California against instructions?\
John C. Fremont
Meriwether Lewis
Jedediah Smith
James Wilkinson
\Name the explorer who explored the Oregon Trail, Nevada
\and California to promote western expansion?\
John C. Fremont
John J. Astor
William Ashley
Wilson P. Hunt
\Who was the man who accompanied Fremont and provided
\much of the accurate astronomically based map data?\
Charles Preuss
Jedediah Smith
Stephen H. Long
Thomas Nuttall
\Who participated in the Bear Flag Revolt and ran for
\President in 1856?\
John C. Fremont
Aaron Burr
James Wilkinson
John J. Astor
\Which explorer was born 1813, died 1890 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1842-45?\
John C. Fremont
Wilson P. Hunt
William Clark
George Catlin
\Which explorer marched with Kearny to Santa Fe and to
\California in 1846-48?\
William H. Emory
John S. Newberry
Wilson P. Hunt
James Wilkinson
\Name the explorer who determined [1848] that much of
\the Southwest was too arid for settlement?\
William H. Emory
Stephen H. Long
Jedediah Smith
Andre Michoux
\Who was the explorer who announced that the Southwest
\could not support slavery?\
William H. Emory
Zebulon M. Pike
Thomas Sparks
George Hunter
\Who supervised the demarcation of the 1500 mile U.S.
\Mexican Boundary?\
William H. Emory
William Dunbar
Charles Preuss
John C. Fremont
\Which explorer was born 1811, died 1887 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1846-55?\
Emory
Fremont
Wilkes
Walker
\After 1848 land in the Southwest was ignored by the U.S.
\which contained the only viable route for a southern
\transcontinental railroad.  Emory's protest led to the ....\
Gadsden Purchase
Bear Flag Revolt
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican War
\What was the ban contained in the law was that was passed
\by the British to protect Indian rights?\
no Colonial settlement beyond the Appalachians
no trading with the Indians in the Ohio Valley
The French were allowed in Canada but not Americans
All furs must be sold to the British
\Who employed Boone to explore land in Kentucky?\
Henderson
Adair
Henry
Gist
\Most Colonial settlers associated land with wealth & ....\
dignity, social status
political power
British or loyalist leanings
dishonesty, cheating the Indians
\What did many States use to pay debts especially to the
\Militia?\
land
cash
animals
slaves
\What made rivers especially important in early western
\migration?\
provided transportation and communication routes
irrigated the dry soil especially for cotton & tobacco
set boundaries between states and nations
provided drinking water for animals and people
\The first `American' explorers were concerned with ....\
mapping or surveying land for personal property and towns
finding and destroying the Indian camps
adventure and trapping in the wilderness
military problems of fortification and defense
\What President was a surveyor?\
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
\The Charters of the original colonies frequently gave
\land that was ....\
from coast to coast
generally in its current size and shape
purchased from the Indians who were not using it
limited by law to the Appalachian Mountains
\Why did the French and British interests wish to keep
\settlers out of the trans-Appalachian area?\
settlements would disturb the Indian fur trade
to keep the land for settlers from Canada
Ownership of the Mississippi was crucial to the area
to calm Spanish fears of encroachment
\What are did a Dr. Thomas Walker explore?\
the upper Roanoke River
the Cumberland Gap
the Ohio River Valley
Kentucky
\Who explored western Pennsylvania, the Ohio River, eastern
\Kentucky and mapped western Virginia?\
Christopher Gist
Patrick Henry
Daniel Boone
Thomas Hutchins
\Who discovered the Cumberland Gap in 1750?\
Walker
Gist
Boone
Henderson
\Thomas Hutchins is notable for ....\
the use of astronomical observations in surveying
discovering the Cumberland Gap
surveying the Northwest coast by sea
painting the flora and fauna of the Southeast
\By 1800 most Americans were settled ....\
east of the Appalachian Mountains
west of the Rocky Mountains
west of the Mississippi River
in the New England States
\... asked ... to try to reach the Northwest by way
\of Siberia.\
Jefferson ... Ledyard
Clark ... Lewis
Boone ... Findlay
Hutchinson ... Boone
\The U.S. was concerned over foreign control of the lower
\Mississippi River ports because control could ....\
strangle American commerce in the interior
earn a lot of import/export tax money
be able to develop irrigation & hydroelectric power
give all fishing rights to the foreign power
\What did Jefferson ask to buy from Napoleon?\
New Orleans
Louisiana Territory
Northwest Territory
Missouri Territory
\Why did Jefferson want to find a river route to the west
\coast?\
for ease of transportation and communication
to monopolize the Northwest fur trade
for irrigation for the farms in the mid-west
to replace the railroads
\What were Jefferson's intention toward the Indians?\
establish friendly relations
kill as many as possible
drive them off the land by killing buffalo and beaver
pay a good price for their land
\How long was the Lewis and Clark trip?  ... years, ...
\months and 10 days.\
2...4
4...10
4...2
1...2
\General James Wilkinson and ... were co-conspirators in
\an attempt to create a separate empire out of the Southwest.\
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Zebulon M. Pike
Thomas Jefferson
\Perhaps Pike's greatest contribution was to typify the
\Southwest as a ....\
Great American Desert
While Kingdom
Bread Basket of the World
Land of Gold and Honey
\The best topographer of the 1840s was ....\
Joseph Nicollet
John C. Fremont
James Wilkinson
Charles Wilkes
\The most spectacular explorations of the 1850s by the
\Topographic Corps were for ....\
routes for a transcontinental railroad
a river route to the west coast
the US/Mexican boarder
the US/Canadian border
\Isaac I. Stephens, George B. McClellan, John W. Gunnison,
\Amiel W. Whipple, John G. Parke & John B. Pope were all ....\
looking for a transcontinental railroad route
fur trappers for Ashley
soldier-explorers during the War with Mexico
guides for wagon trains west
\The first stratigraphic column in the West was a chart
\of the walls of the Grand Canyon in 1857 by geologist ....\
John Strong Newberry
James Hervey Simpson
F.V. von Egloffsten
John N. Macomb
\Great caches of extinct animal bones were discovered in
\Dakota country by ....\
Meek and Hayden
Lewis and Clark
John W. Powell
Jackson and Holmes
\Lt John G. Park, working with British engineers, laid
\out the ....\
boundaries between the U.S. and Canada
the Mexican/US border
the Yellowstone National Park
Northern Pacific Railroad
\Who was the first American to open up trade to Santa Fe
\and blaze the Santa Fe Trail?\
William Becknell
Ezekial Williams
William Wolfskill
George Drouillard
\Among the first Americans to see the Grand Canyon and later
\open the route from Santa Fe to the Pacific were ....\
the Patties
Lewis and Clark
the Astorians
Ashley and Jed Smith
\Manifest Destiny was a belief that ....\
America was destined to expand to the West Coast
All the Indians would be killed or moved out of the west
The English, French & Spanish powers would by NW territory
the Mississippi River belonged to America
\Capts Hudson and Wilkes both agreed that the Columbia
\estuary would ....\
not be a safe harbor
be the best harbor north of San Francisco
be turned over to the British
be an excellent site for a military post
\Wilkes report was largely ignored because of charges over....\
harsh discipline
dishonest reports
financial mismanagement
conflict with the Indians
\The 'Pathfinder' label was given to ....\
Fremont
Walker
Colter
Jed Smith
\William Ashley established the ... Fur Company.\
Rocky Mountain
Canadian Pacific
North West
Pacific Coast
\Peter S. Ogden ordered his men to ... to discourage
\American trappers.\
trap all the beaver
tell the Indians to fight
burn the trading posts
lower prices for fur and raise them for goods
\Ashley established ... as a method of supplying the
\trappers and buying the skins.\
the Rendezvous
Lisa's Fort
St. Louis
Sutter's Mill
\Jed Smith's pelts and journal were recovered by ....\
John McLaughlin
Peter S. Ogden
Donald Mackenzie
Joe Walker
\One of Jed Smith's major contributions was his report to
\the Secretary of War concerning the ....\
rich possibilities for settlement in Willamette Valley
encroachment of the British in Oregon Territory
passivity of the Northwest Indians
end of the beaver trade
\Bonneville accomplished many of his goals only through
\the help of ....\
Walker
Miller
Fremont
Meriwether
\Who was the German immigrant who established the American
\Fur Company and the Pacific Fur Company?\
John J. Astor
Zebulon M. Pike
Manuel Lisa
William Ashley
\The Pacific Fur Company employed many experienced fur
\traders from ....\
Canada
Mexico
France
the Indian Confederacy
\The Tonquin was under the command of ... and designed to
\support the overland expedition to Oregon.\
Thorne
Wilkinson
Dunbar
Hunter
\The trappers of the Pacific Fur Company were under the
\command of ....\
Alexander Mckay
Wilson P. Hunt
Donald Mackenzie
Thomas Nuttall
\What event caused the end of the Pacific Fur Company
\in Oregon?\
the War of 1812
the death of Mckay
the loss of the Tonquin's trade goods
the slaughter of all the sailors
\The first entrepreneur to understand the implications
\of the Lewis and Clark trip and successfully organize
\the mountain men for fur trading was ....\
Manuel Lisa
John J. Astor
William Ashley
Wilson P. Hunt