CAPES - Revisions #3 -

Jefferson himself had tried to organize several transcontinental expeditions before Lewis and Clark's journey to the Pacific. Who was the first known American adventurer to try to explore the American hinterland from the West?
1. John Ledyard
2. André Michaux
3. Santiago Clamorgan, a métis from Guadeloupe
4. John MacKay, who was accompanied by a young Welshman, John Evans.
Jefferson himself had tried to organize several transcontinental expeditions before Lewis and Clark's journey to the Pacific. Who was the Frenchman who was to explore the American West (1793)?
1. John Ledyard
2. André Michaux
3. Santiago Clamorgan, a métis from Guadeloupe
4. John MacKay, who was accompanied by a young Welshman, John Evans.
Jefferson himself had tried to organize several transcontinental expeditions before Lewis and Clark's journey to the Pacific. Who was the first known American adventurer to try to explore the American hinterland from the West?
1. John Ledyard
2. André Michaux
3. Santiago Clamorgan, a métis from Guadeloupe
4. John MacKay, who was accompanied by a young Welshman, John Evans.
Who had failed to become governor of New York, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, contacted General James Wilkinson, a United States Army officer secretly in the pay of Spain and planned an invasion of Mexico with him, discussed a plan to foment a secessionist movement in the West to found an empire, before being arrested and finally acquitted?
1. La Buse
2. Aaron Burr
3. Albert Gallatin
4. George Rogers Clark, William Clark's elder brother
Who were the two American negotiators in Paris during the talks that led to the Louisiana Purchase (1803)?
1. Livingston and Stanley
2. Adams and Onis
3. Jay and Yrujo
4. Livingston and Monroe
Who was Sacajawea's "husband"?
1. George Drouillard
2. Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau
3. Toussaint Charbonneau
4. Pierre Crouzatte
Name the fort where the Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805/06
1. Fort Knox
2. Fort Mandan
3. Fort Vincennes
4. Fort Clatsop
Which river did Meriwether Lewis want to explore in March 1806 when he met Blackfoot warriors, an encounter that led to the death of two Indians?
1. The Gallatin River.
2. The Marias River.
3. The Judith River.
4. The Clearwater River.
When did the Corps of Discovery arrive at St Louis after its successful transcontinental journey?
1. September 23, 1804.
2. September 23, 1805.
3. November 23, 1806.
4. September 23, 1806.
The Lewis and Clark exploration was successful with the loss of only one man by illness. Who was he?
1. John Ordway
2. George Drouillard
3. Joseph Whitehouse
4. Charles Floyd.
In his _Notes on the State of Virginia_ written in 1781-1782, Jefferson wrote: “But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman.” Who did Jefferson write his book for?
1. Francois Marbois, the secretary of the French Legation at Philadelphia, who circulated a series of queries in the Continental Congress during the summer and fall of 1780.
2. George Washington, first President of the United States.
3. Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) — ethnologist, linguist, American politician, diplomat, and Secretary of the Treasury.
4. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author.
What theory held that the topography of the western half of the continent was a mirror image of the continent’s eastern landforms and waterways? Thus the drainage patterns of the rivers on the Pacific slopes of the western mountains would resemble those of the rivers on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains. ... A half-century later, one of the principal objectives of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was to resolve these geographical conjectures. Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/easy_comm.html.
1. Symmetrical geography.
2. The Great Chain of Being.
3. The pyramidal height-of-land theory.
4. The tectonic plaques movement.
In addition to their legacy of extensive explorations, the French developed two geographical theories that played an important role in cartographic representations of western North America [in the eighteenth century]. What theory postulated that America’s great rivers all originated from centralized mountain heights before they dispersed to outlets in the Mississippi River, Hudson Bay, or Pacific Ocean?
(The French believed the sources of the rivers to be so close together that a short portage between them might be possible.)
Source:http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/easy_comm.html.
1. The pyramidal height-of-land theory.
2. Symmetrical geography.
3. The Great Chain of Being.
4. The tectonic plaques movement.
What secret treaty of 1800 was actually a draft confirmed by two later treaties (Mar., 1801; Oct., 1802) by which Spain retroceded Louisiana to France?
1. The Treaty of San Ildefonso.
2. The Treaty of San Lorenzo.
3. The Adams-Onis Treaty.
4. The Treaty of Paris (1783).
Where did Lewis receive full training before the Expedition?
1. Lewis first stayed back East, taking instructions in diverse scientific subjects in Philadelphia.
2. Lewis first stayed back East, taking instructions in diverse scientific subjects in Boston.
3. Lewis first stayed back East, taking instructions in diverse scientific subjects in New York.
4. Lewis first stayed back East, taking instructions in diverse scientific subjects in Richmond.
Where did Lewis procure supplies for the expedition?
1. Lewis arranged for supplies at Fort Vincennes.
2. Lewis arranged for supplies from his mother's plantation in Albermarle county.
3. Lewis arranged for supplies from the customs house in Boston, (Massachusetts).
4. Lewis arranged for supplies from the Harper’s Ferry Armory, (Virginia).
Where was the keelboat built?
1. Lewis oversaw the construction of a keelboat at Pittsburgh, (Pennsylvania).
2. Lewis oversaw the construction of a keelboat at Boston, (Massachusetts).
3. Lewis oversaw the construction of a keelboat at St Louis, (upper Louisiana).
4. Lewis oversaw the construction of a keelboat at Louisville, (Kentucky).
In Philadelphia, who did Lewis receive training from in matters of botany?
1. Benjamin Smith Barton.
2. Benjamin Rush.
3. Andrew Ellicot and Robert Patterson.
4. Caspar Wistar.
In Philadelphia, who did Lewis receive training from in matters of celestial observations ?
1. Andrew Ellicot and Robert Patterson
2. Benjamin Rush.
3. Benjamin Smith Barton.
4. Caspar Wistar.
In Philadelphia, who did Lewis receive training from in matters of medicine?
1. Benjamin Rush.
2. Caspar Wistar.
3. Andrew Ellicot and Robert Patterson.
4. Benjamin Smith Barton.
In Philadelphia, who did Lewis receive training from in matters of fossils?
1. Caspar Wistar.
2. Benjamin Rush.
3. Andrew Ellicot and Robert Patterson.
4. Benjamin Smith Barton.
Who managed the American Museum in Philadelphia?
1. Charles Willson Peale.
2. Benjamin Franklin.
3. Doctor Rush.
4. William Barton.
Where did Lewis meet Clark on his way to St Louis before the expedition?
1. He picked up Clark at Louisville, Kentucky.
2. He picked up Clark at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
3. He picked up Clark at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
4. He picked up Clark at Clarksville, Indiana.
The men of the Corps of Discovery referred to Clark as "Captain Clark". Why was this inappropriate?
1. Clark was appointed general by George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion.
2. Clark was a planter and a civilian.
3. Lewis hoped that Clark would hold the same captain’s rank as he, but Clark received only a lieutenant’s commission for the expedition.
4. Clark was governor of Kentucky.
Where did the expedition spend their fist winter before the expedition actually began in May 1803?
1. In the fall, they set up first camp at Wood River (Fort Rivière des Bois) near the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
2. In the fall, they set up first camp at Wood River (Fort Dubois) near the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
3. In the fall, they set up first camp at Good River (Fort Dunon) near the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
4. In the fall, they set up first camp at Flood River (Fort Inondé) near the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
Name the scientific society that played a major role in the preparation of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
1. The American Philosophical Society.
2. The Scientific Society of Boston.
3. The Literary Society of New York.
4. The North West Society of Montreal.
What was George Drouillard's role during the expedition?
1. He was a hunter-interpreter.
2. He was the geographer of the expediton.
3. He was in charge of the keelboat.
4. He was cook.
Who was Clark’s black servant?
1. Cruzatte.
2. Labiche.
3. Seaman.
4. York.
What was Lewis’ dog's name?
1. Sharbono.
2. Seaman.
3. Prairie.
4. Shoshone.
After crossing the Great Divide on their way to the Pacific, waht rivers did Lewis and Clark sail down?
1. They paddled down the Clearwater, the Snake and the Columbia.
2. They paddled down the Platte, the Snake and the Columbia.
3. They paddled down the Clearwater, the Yellowstone and the Columbia.
4. They paddled down the Jefferson, the Snake and the Columbia.
Which tribes did the Corps of Discovery meet after crossing the Great Divide?
1. the Osage and Pawnee.
2. The Osage and the Omaha.
3. The Mandans and the Teton Sioux.
4. The Flatheads and the Nez Perces.