New France
Kaskaskia
Native Americans
Red Bud
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100
With Joliet, this guy explored the Mississippi River.
Who is Jaques Marquette?
100
The present day village of Kaskaskia sits on this side of the Mississippi River.
What is the west?
100
In northern Illinois, Native Americans and the French both set up establishments on this 125 foot structure.
What is Starved Rock?
100
What kind of business was first in the Ziebold building?
What is a bank?
100
Today, the descendants of the Illinois Confederacy are know as the Peoria Tribe of Indians of _______________.
What is Oklahoma?
200
French trappers wanted to catch as many beavers as they could to make these.
What are hats?
200
Kaskaskia was important to other French colonies mainly for this reason.
What is growing food?
200
Two structures that Native Americans in our area lived in during different parts of the year.
What are longhouses and wigwams?
200
Name of the family who moved from Virginia to Horse Prairie, and then eventually made first settlement around what would become Red Bud.
What is Brickey?
200
In the year 1881, this wiped out what used to be one of the most important cities in the state of Illinois.
What is a flood?
300
Samuel de Champlain reached this river while searching for the Northwest Passage.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
300
This priest established the Mission of the Immaculate Conception missionary.
Who is Fr. Gabriel Marest?
300
Chief of the Kaskaskias, he has a town named after him that just had a state fair.
Who is Jean Baptiste Ducoigne?
300
Ratz Memorial Park has a monument dedicated to what group of people?
What are soldiers?
300
He brewed beer and was the census taker in Red Bud's 1870 census.
Who is John Meyer?
400
He explored the area around Kaskaskia for a French fort.
Who is Henri de Tonti?
400
In 1881, this destroyed the village of Kaskaskia for good.
What is a flood?
400
This is what the group of five tribes of Native Americans was known as during the late 1700s.
What is the Illinois Confederation?
400
This destroyed what was the first brick building in Red Bud in November of 1893.
What is a tornado?
400
Many Native American tribes moved close to this local French fort for protection from the Spanish and other Native American tribes.
What is Fort De Chartres?
500
Samuel de Champlain set up this city for France.
What is Quebec?
500
This was a gift from the king of France that said "For the Church of the Illinois, by gift of the King across the water."
What is the Liberty Bell of the West?
500
1802 battle where the Kaskaskias were wiped out by the Shawnee.
What is Townmount Prairie?
500
What was the area surrounding what would become Red Bud called until 1847?
What is Prairieville?
500
Name of the tribe of Native Americans who defeated Chief Ducoigne and the Kaskaskias at the Battle of Townmount Prairie.
What is Shawnee?
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