What is a railroad that would go from coast to coast across the country?
100
These people lived in Colorado before the settlers came.
What is the American Indians?
100
The Louisiana Purchase.
What is the United States bought a lot of land from Napoleon Bonaparte and almost doubled the size of the country?
100
Colorado is known as "the mother of rivers" for this reason.
What is all of the rivers in Colorado begin in Colorado?
200
The colors of the state flag represent:
What is blue stands for the blue skies, yellow stands for the sun, white stands for the snow, and red stands for the red soil.
200
Mano and metate.
What is the mano is a round rock that was rubbed over a metate, or flat rock, to grind food.
200
The prehistoric people got their food by doing this.
What is hunting mammoths, buffalo, etc.?
200
This was the year Colorado became a state.
What is 1876?
200
Name three landforms you can find in Colorado.
What is mountains, rivers, hills, canyons, etc.?
300
The state fossil
What is the stegosaurus?
300
Elevation.
What is the number of feet above sea level, or the height of the land above sea level?
300
American Indians lived in this type of home.
What is tipis and wickiups?
300
Many people died from thirst, starvation, or disease trying to find this in 1859.
What is gold?
300
He explored the sourthern part of the Lousiana Purchase and wanted to find the source of the Red River.
Who was Zebulon Pike?
400
The state gemstone.
What is the aquamarine?
400
Irrigation
What is supplying farm land with water from another place, usually flowing through ditches or pipes?
400
This is how we know about the first explorers in Colorado.
What is we read the journals they kept?
400
This is the war that was happening back East between the northern and southern sections of the U.S when John Evans was the governor of the Colorado Territory.
What is the Civil War?
500
The state dance.
What is the square dance?
500
Kiva.
What is a round room that was partially sunk into the ground and used only by the men and boys for religious ceremonies?
500
John Chivington.
What is the person who started the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
These were the places that the government set aside for the Native Americans.