Vocabulary
Transportation
Natives Fight Back
Mining
Business and Manufacturing
100
A brisk conflict or encounter.
What is a skirmish?
100
The main method of transporting mail, goods, and people throughout the Utah territory in the 1860s and 1870s.
What are stagecoaches?
100
The name of the leader of the new group of US Army troops that came to Utah and built Fort Douglas.
Who was Colonel Patrick Connor?
100
A metal that can be mined for profit.
What is ore?
100
A joint business venture where the owners share the risks and benefits.
What is a cooperative?
200
Able to supply one's own needs.
What is self-sufficient?
200
The goal of the Pony Express was to deliver mail from Missouri to California in ________.
What is 10 days?
200
The name of the massacre that started the Black Hawk War; Colonel Connor slaughtered an entire village of Shoshone Indians here.
What was the Bear River Massacre?
200
To search for or explore for mineral deposits.
What is prospecting?
200
The name of the cooperative the Mormons started to compete with non-Mormon business in the territory.
What is ZCMI?
300
Troubled; annoyed.
What is plagued?
300
Transporting goods or cargo for pay.
What is freighting?
300
The name of the man who left his daughter to be found by the Mormons after surviving the Bear River Massacre.
Who was Sagwitch?
300
The main problem with working in mines; results from breathing in dust for too long.
What is lung disease?
300
The product Brigham Young wanted Utah women to start manufacturing.
What is silk?
400
The act of being ruthless or extremely cruel.
What is brutality?
400
The conflict that happened between Indians and settlers because of the Indians raiding stagecoach routes.
What was the Goshute War?
400
A tract of land set aside by the government for the use of an Indian tribe.
What is a reservation?
400
Known as the "Father of Utah Mining."
Who is Colonel Patrick Connor?
400
The group that did the most business in Utah besides the Mormons.
Who are the Jewish?
500
Not restricted to any one religion.
What is non-denominational?
500
The revolutionary invention that eliminated the need for the Pony Express.
What was the telegraph?
500
The name of the Ute reservation Abraham Lincoln created during the Civil War.
What is the Uintah Valley Ute Reservation?
500
What happened to mining towns after the ore ran out.
What are ski resorts?
500
POKEMON QUESTION TIME
This legendary Pokemon can rend the very fabric of time itself.
Who is Dialga?