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Year
Geography
Misc.
100

He claimed the frontier to be closed in 1890.

Who is Turner?

100

The Nayarit is located here, in this neighborhood of Los Angeles.

What is Echo Park?

100

Gold is discovered in California.

What is 1848?

100

One of two states to share Colorado's northern border.

What is Wyoming?

What is Nebraska?

100

This act established technical colleges in the West.

What is the Morrill Act?

200

This Dakota man had a vision, which led him on a healing journey across South Dakota and to Mankato, Minnesota.

Who is Jim Miller?

200

The majority of battles in the Black Hawk War were fought in this U.S. state.

What is Illinois?

200

The Dakota Uprising happened in this year.

What is 1862?

200

This state had the eastern embarkation point for the Santa Fe Trail.

What is Missouri?

200

He asked if the West can be redemptive.

Who is Bill Deverell?

300

This Spanish conquistador thought he would find what he searched for in the West.

Who is Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca?

300

This is the name of the opening forged by Daniel Boone in the late 18th century.

What is the Cumberland Gap?

300

The Black Hawk War

What is 1832?

300

This state is directly south of Utah.

What is Arizona?

300

Miera y Pacheco is known for mistakenly thinking that a cross-continental river flowed out of which body of water?

What is the Great Salt Lake?

400

He wrote about Tai-me.

Who is N. Scott Momaday?

400

This trip of land triggered the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848.

What is the Nueces Strip?

400

The Chinese Exclusion Act is first passed.

What is 1882?

400

This state is directly north of Illinois.

What is Wisconsin?

400

This everyday mining guy tried to earn a killing in the West but ended up living an "Aimless Life."

Who is Leonard Worcester, Jr.?

500

He started the Ghost Dance movement.

Who was Wovoka?

500

Narcissa Whitman took this trail honeymoon.

What is the Oregon Trail?

500

The Immigration Act of this year established quotas for the first time.

What is 1924?

500

Caitlin Clark moved from this state during her college career to this (second) state for her pro career.

What are Iowa and Indiana?

500

Minnesota is said to be the State of 10,000 Lakes, but it actually has this many.

What are 11,842?

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