Quiz on Lewis and Clark

1. In what month and year did Lewis and Clark officially begin their expedition?
2. What "city" did they leave from?
3. What total distance did they travel?
4. What year did Thomas Jefferson become President of the United States?
5. What year did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase?
6. Whom did Jefferson ask to lead the Corps of Discovery?
7. Where did Meriwether Lewis study during the summer before the expedition left?
8.  How many members of the expedition died while on the journey?
9. What was the name of the expedition's first winter camp?
10. What did Lewis and Clark send back to St. Louis in the spring?
11. How many people were in the "permanent party" -- the ones who went on the whole expedition?
12. The party had to carry their boats for 18 miles around what natural feature?
13. With which Indians did they trade for horses to use to cross the mountains?
14. When the party thought they were seeing the ocean, they were actually seeing what?
15. The expedition returned to where they had started on what date?