definitions
Native Americans
Mining
This and That
People
100
Where two rivers of the same size come together
What is a confluence?
100
Descendants of European and Indian heritage
Who are the Metis?
100
The town that sprang up in the Alder Gulch area was
What is Virginia City?
100
Killed thousands of Plains Indians from 1837 to 1840
What is smallpox?
100
Was a peace symbol
Who was Sacagawea?
200
Exclusive control of an industry
What is a monopoly?
200
The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent its first winter with these two Nations
What are the Mandans and Hidatsas?
200
Mining that used a pan
What is placer mining?
200
He loved the limelight and maybe wanted to be president
Who was George Armstrong Custer?
300
Measurements of the distance north or south of the Equator
What is latitude?
300
Asked Father DeSmet to come and share the power of the Black book
Who were the Salish?
300
May have been a law man or bandit
Who was Henry Plummer?
300
The exact date that Montana became a territory
What was May 26, 1864?
300
The army officer responsible for the massacre on the Marias
Who was Major Eugene Baker?
400
Fundamental rights
What are civil rights?
400
Once considered the power house of the West
Who were the Blackfeet?
400
Took law into their own hands
Who were the vigilantes?
400
natural boundary used for Montana’s western border
What are the Bitterroot Mountains?
400
lived in the region of the West with his family and mapped it over a long period
Who is David Thompson?
500
Formally approve
What is ratify?
500
These two Nations used arm resistance against the U. S.
Who are the Sioux and Cheyenne?
500
The legal group in most mining camps
What was the miners' court?
500
2 leaders of the Northern Cheyenne
Who were Little Wolf and Dull Knife?
500
Montana’s first Territorial governor
Who was Sidney Edgerton?
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