Question
Answer the following about people who attempted to determine the head of the Mississippi River, for 10 points each.
[10e] James Wilkinson tasked this general with finding the Mississippi’s headwaters. Katherine Bates was inspired to write “America the Beautiful” by his second expedition, in which he encountered a peak in the Colorado Rockies that now bears his name.
ANSWER: Zebulon Pike [or Zebulon Montgomery Pike; accept Pikes Peak]
[10m] This governor led a survey expedition of the Michigan Territory that identified Red Cedar Lake as the Mississippi’s source. He supported popular sovereignty as the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee.
ANSWER: Lewis Cass
[10h] This ethnologist and author of a five-volume Native American history correctly identified the headwaters of the Mississippi and called it Lake Itasca, from the Latin for “true head.” His wife, Jane Johnston, was an early published Ojibwe author.
ANSWER: Henry Schoolcraft [or Henry Rowe Schoolcraft]
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