Q 01/05

Which US president commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) James Monroe

C) John Adams

D) James Madison

Answer · why

A) Thomas Jefferson

He used a secret message to ask Congress for funding because of poor relations with the Federalists.

Q 02/05

Which Great Plains animal did Lewis and Clark ship alive to President Jefferson in 1805?

A) A pronghorn

B) A prairie dog

C) A coyote

D) A jackrabbit

Answer · why

B) A prairie dog

A prairie dog. It went down the Missouri in a cage beside four live magpies and crates of skins and bones, survived months of travel, and was lodging ...

Q 03/05

What job did Meriwether Lewis hold when Jefferson chose him to lead the expedition?

A) A frontier land surveyor

B) A fur company agent

C) The president's private secretary

D) A professor of natural history

Answer · why

C) The president's private secretary

The president's private secretary. Jefferson had hired the young army officer in 1801 partly because he knew the western country, then sent him to Phi...

Q 04/05

From which winter camp on the Illinois side of the Mississippi did the Corps set out in May 1804?

A) Camp Dubois

B) Camp Chopunnish

C) Fort Bellefontaine

D) Fort Kaskaskia

Answer · why

A) Camp Dubois

Camp Dubois. Clark built it on the east bank partly because the west bank was still in foreign hands: the American flag went up there only in March 18...

Q 05/05

Clark waited at which Missouri River town for Lewis to ride in and join the boats in May 1804?

A) Cape Girardeau

B) Ste. Genevieve

C) St. Charles

D) Kansas City

Answer · why

C) St. Charles

St. Charles. Clark's men spent five days at dances, dinners and a church service in the mostly French-Canadian village of about 450 people, and pushed...