1. Who explored the area currently known as Kentucky?

a. William Clark
b. Daniel Boone
c. Meriwether Lewis
d. Thomas Jefferson

2. What doubled the size of the United States in 1803?

a. the Oregon Trail
b. the discovery of Kentucky
c. the Louisiana Purchase
d. the discovery of the Appalachian Mountains

3. What was one reason settlers wanted to move west?

a. to find gold
b. to meet Native Americans
c. to get warm
d. to get away from the Mississippi River

4. Lewis and Clark ___________ that would later help others who moved west.

a. made maps
b. built roads
c. discovered animals
d. studied the Missouri River

5. Where did the Oregon Trail begin?

a. Oregon
b. Missouri
c. Mississippi
d. Indiana