TLC-Content Literacy Strategies

Lewis & Clark Post-assessment

3 Multiple Choice Questions

1.       Jefferson's personal secretary. In 1804, he was sent by Jefferson to to explore the north part of the Louisiana Purchase. He made it all the way to the Pacific Ocean. They learned much about the natives, the land, and other scientific things.

A.      President Jefferson

B.      Meriwether Lewis

C.      William Clark

D.      Missouri River

2.       Territory purchased by the United States from France in 1803, extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

A.      Missouri River

B.      William Clark

C.      Sacagawea

D.      Louisiana Purchase

3.       3rd President of the United States, chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)

A.      Meriwether Lewis

B.      President Jefferson

C.      Louisiana Purchase

D.      Missouri River

3 True/False Questions

4.       William Clark → Indian guide that took Lewis & Clark on their exploration

                                 True         False 

5.       Sacagawea → Indian guide that took Lewis & Clark on their exploration

                               True         False

6.       Missouri River → United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River

                                 True         False