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Description: This awesome resource allows students to complete the digital scavenger hunt by clicking on states to find answers. There are ten questions, randomly chosen from a pool of questions. The hunt gives immediate feedback. You can unlock this interactive and every resource on MrNussbaum.com when you become a subscriber. Only $49 per year for a teacher and unlimited students!

Description: This is a full biography of French explorer Robert Sieur de la Salle

Description: This article describes the explorations of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet down the Mississippi River.

Description: Voyageurs were French and French Canadian fur traders who traveled by canoe across North America in the 1600s and 1700s. They worked with Native American tribes to trade goods like metal tools and cloth for valuable animal furs. Voyageurs were known for their strength, teamwork, and skill in navigating long rivers and rough wilderness.

Description: Zebulon Pike was an American explorer and military officer best known for leading expeditions through the southern and western portions of the Louisiana Territory in the early 1800s. During one of his journeys, he explored the Rocky Mountains and attempted to climb the peak that was later named Pike’s Peak in his honor. His expeditions provided valuable information about the geography, Native American tribes, and Spanish territories of the American Southwest.

Description: This page describes the 49 the parallel - the border established between the United States and British Canada in 1818.

Description: This comprehensive section includes profiles of twelve American land acquisitions or occupations including the Louisiana Purchase, Adams-Onis Treaty, Mexican-American war acquisitions, Alaska Purchase, Hawaii annexation, and many others.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Profiles of America's Land Acquisition Section

Description: This interactive map provides details of each of twelve major engagements pitting the United States military against the Native Americans. It includes the Comanche Wars, Sioux Wars, the Long Walk, Red Cloud's War, Cayuse War, Whitman's Massacre, Chickamauga Wars, and many more.