Description: NEW AND IMPROVED! Simply click on the state to learn all about its history all on the same page! Try our digital scavenger hunt for this activity as well. 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 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 article describes the explorations of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet down the Mississippi River.

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

Description: This page describes the Louisiana Purchase.

Description: This magnificent exhibit features an interactive tour of the Lewis and Clark journey.

Description: This activity requires students to use the interactive Lewis and Clark tour to answer the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed to be used with the Lewis and Clark Interactive Tour

Description: This page describes the Missouri Compromise.

Description: This interactive map tells all about the Oregon, California, Santa Fe, and Mormon Trails. Simply click on a trail location to learn all about it.

Description: This page describes in detail the many hazards that pioneers faced in their travels west. From crippling diseases, to wagon accidents, dangerous weather, wild creatures, and attacks by Native Americans, life was very difficult on the journey west.

Description: This is the printable version of the scavenger hunt that goes with the Westward Trails Interactive Map

Description: This is a detailed biography about Meriwether Lewis.

Description: This is a detailed biography on William Clark - Lewis and Clark

Description: This is a biography about Sacagawea.

Description: This is a complete biography on George Washington Carver

Description: This page describes the life and times of Samuel L. Clemens, AKA Mark Twain. It is part of our authors series.

Description: This is a full biography on Harry S. Truman. It is part of our presidents series.