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What year did Colorado become a Territory?
1861
Who was Clara Brown?
Clara Brown was a former enslaved woman from Virginia and Kentucky who became a community leader and philanthropist. She settled in Central City. She helped formerly enslaved people become settled during Colorado's Gold Rush. She was known as the 'Angel of the Rockies' and made her mark as "Colorado's first black settler and a prosperous entrepreneur"
Margaret Brown ( aka Molly Brown)
Margaret Tobin Brown was one of the first women in the United States to run for political office. A lifelong advocate of human rights, Margaret was also a prominent figure following the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado, in April 1914, a significant landmark in the history of labor rights in the United States.
When was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii attacked?
December 7, 1941
What is a primary source?
Any source that was created during the time period you are researching. Contemporaneous source.
What year did Colorado become a State?
1876
Native Americans who lived in the Four-corners area around C. 490 to C. 1300 known for their cliff dwellings
Anasazi or the Ancestral Puebloan people
Who was Laurena Senter?
The leader of Colorado's women's branck of the Ku Klux Klan.
Name three military installations in Colorado.
Fort Carson
Peterson Air Force Base
Lowery Air Base
Buckley Air Force Base
Air Force Academy
Pueblo Army Chemical Depot Base
Schriever Air Force Base
Cheyeene Mountain
The famed ski soldiers that trained in Colorado.
10th Mountain Division
When did the Ludlow Massacre occur?
April 20, 1914
Who were the first non-natives, after the Spanish, in Colorado?
Mountain men, explorers, traders
Who was Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzalez?
Chicano movement leader.
This Act required the government to purchase silver thus keeping the demand and prices high.
The Sherman Silver Act of 1873
Which government agencies are located at the Cheyenne Mountain complex? (name at least three)
U.S. Strategic Command
Defense Intelligence Agency
Air Force Space Command
Missile Defense Agency
Stock Market crash that triggered the Great Depression
October 29, 1929
Whom did the CIA trained at Camp Hale between 1959 to 1964?
Tibetan fighters
Who was Robert Speer and what is he known for?
Mayor of Denver (1904-1912)
Built parks, sanitation system, storm sewers, gave away trees, - supported beautification of Denver
Executive Order 9066
The order authorized the army to designate military exclusion zones—most of which were on the West Coast—and creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The order required the relocation of both Issei, first-generation Japanese immigrants who held the status of “resident aliens,” and Nisei, second-generation American citizens. (February 19, 1942)
A contractor at Rocky Flats Plant fined 18.5 million dollars for environmental damages.
Rockwell International
Ludlow Massacre
April 20, 1914
Pioneered the Santa Fe Trail before Mexico gained its independence from Spain.
William Becknell
Who was Horace Tabor?
The Silver King of Leadville. Struck it rich in the great Leadville silver boom.
The most important battle of the West during the Civil War. The so-called Gettysburg of the West.
Battle of Glorietta pass, 1862
What was the Rocky Mountain Fleet?
23 ships that were built in Colorado during WW II.