IMPORTANT PEOPLE
TERMS
TRANSPORTATION
RAILROADS
RANDOM FACTS
100

A PERSON WHO IS PART AMERICAN INDIAN AND PART EUROPEAN.

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

WHAT IS METIS?

100

A TOWN PLANNED ON PAPER BUT NEVER BUILT.

(HINT: SECTION 4-6)

WHAT IS A PAPER TOWN?

100

THIS INVENTION CARRIED FURS BETWEEN FORT GARRY, PEMBINA, AND ST. PAUL.

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

WHAT WAS THE RED RIVER CART?

100

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RENAMED EDWINTON THIS TO TRY TO PERSUADE GERMANS TO INVEST IN THE RAILROAD.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT WAS BISMARCK?

100

ANOTHER NAME FOR A TRAIN.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT IS AN IRON HORSE?

200

THE U.S. PRESIDENT THAT SIGNED THE BILL CREATING DAKOTA TERRITORY IN 1861.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHO WAS PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN?

200

A CITY CONTAINING THE GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS.

(HINT: SECTION 4-6)

WHAT IS A CAPITAL?

200

THIS WAS THE PRIMARY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION ON THE UPPER MISSOURI IN THE 1860s. 

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

WHAT WAS THE STEAMBOAT?

200

THE MAJOR RAILROAD LINE THAT CROSSED THE STATE DIAGONALLY.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT WAS THE SOO LINE?
200
THE SYSTEM OF COMMINICATION USED BY THE RAILROADS.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT WAS THE TELEGRAPH?

300

THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR WHO WANTED THE CAPITAL OF DAKOTA TERRITORY MOVED.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHO WAS NEHEMIAH ORDWAY?

300

THE LAW-MAKING BODY COMPOSED OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND CONGRESS.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHAT IS THE LEGISLATURE?

300

THIS STEAMBOAT CARRIED THE NEWS OF CUSTER'S DEFEAT IN MONTANA BACK TO BISMARCK.

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

WHAT WAS "THE FAR WEST"?

300

THIS COMPANY WAS OFFERED THE JOB OF BUILDING A TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE U.S.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT WAS THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY?


300

A PLAN OF GOVERNMENT.

(HINT: SECTION 4-6)

WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION?

400

THE U.S. PRESIDENT THAT SIGNED THE BILL CREATING NORTH DAKOTA.

(HINT: SECTION 4-6)

WHO WAS PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON?

400

A BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

(HINT: SECTION 4-6)

WHAT IS A CAPITOL?

400

THIS IS WHEN STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON THE RED RIVER CONTINUED UNTIL.

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

UNTIL THE YEAR 1912?

400

THE SECOND TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD TO CROSS NORTH DAKOTA.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT WAS THE MANITOBA RAILROAD OR GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY?

400

THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE USED TO SEND MESSAGES ON THE RAILROADS.

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHAT IS MORSE CODE?

500

THE AGENT FOR THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY WHO HELD OFFICE IN BURLEIGH COUNTY.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHO WAS ALEXANDER MCKENZIE?

500

THE POWER THAT GROUPS HAVE IN CONTROLLING DECISIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHAT IS POLITICAL POWER?

500

THIS MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION REQUIRED FOUR TO SIX HORSES AND REQUIRED STATIONS EVERY 20 MILES.

(HINT: SECTION 7-8)

WHAT WAS THE STAGECOACH?

500

HE HAD THE GOAL OF BUILDING A RAILROAD THROUGH UNSETTLED LAND TO BRING IN SETTLERS. HE WAS GIVEN THE NICKNAME "EMPIRE BUILDER."

(HINT: SECTION 9)

WHO WAS JAMES (JIM) HILL?

500

THE FIRST CAPTIAL OF DAKOTA TERRITORY LOCATED IN THIS PART OF PRESENT-DAY SOUTH DAKOTA.

(HINT: SECTION 1-3)

WHAT WAS YANKTON IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SOUTH DAKOTA?
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