Indigenous Tribes
What was the largest Native American tribe in Colorado?
The Ute Tribe
Before Crested Butte was a ski town, what was its main source of revenue?
Coal mining
What group of people were interned at Amache Internment Camp between 1942 and 1945?
Japanese and Japanese Americans
Who was the first non-indigenous group to explore/inhabit Colorado?
The Spanish
What famous Colorado Ski Resort was the first to combine the ski resort model with real estate?
Vail Resort
What indigenous group once inhabited Tenderfoot Mountain in Gunnison, often refered to as "W" Mountain?
The Folsom people
What river provides a significant amount of the American West's water?
The Colorado River
What is the name of the infamous massacre that tragically ended in the murder of over 200 Arapahoe and Cheyenne women and children?
The Sand Creek Massacre
What governmental incentive compelled many white settlers to move to Colorado during the mid-late 1800s?
The Homestead Act of 1862
What governmental agency traditionally managed the growth and land grants given to ski resorts?
The U.S. Forest Service
What are the names of the two Indian Reservations located in Colorado?
The Southern Ute Reservation and the Mountain Ute Reservation
What mineral resource was heavily extracted from Colorado during the mid-late 1800s and into the early 1900s?
Coal
The Denver Race Riot of 1880 was inflicted upon what minority of people and why?
The Chinese were discriminated against because they were viewed as cheap laborers, taking jobs away from white workers who were only willing to work for higher wages
Who was the first American sent to explore Colorado in 1806-1807?
Zebulon Pike
In 2008, the ski resort industry began a new form of ski passes usable across multiple resorts. What is the name of this pass?
The Epic Pass
What was the purpose of Federal Indian Boarding Schools?
Federal Indian Boarding Schools were used in an attempt to assimilate Native American children into American society by forcing them to abandon their native culture
Who was the pioneer responsible for starting the coal and railroad industries within Colorado?
William Jackson Palmer
What were some of the underlying reasons for the Colorado Coalfield War of 1914?
Miners' dangerous work environments, greedy mining monopolies, incompetence of mine bosses, and disregard for mining as a skilled craft
Presently, where does roughly 80% of Colorado's population live along?
The Front Range
Why were the 1976 Denver Olympic Games canceled?
Taxpayers did not want to use their tax dollars to finance the Games
What was the White River Agency? What occurred there in 1879?
The White River Agency was a U.S. government-sponsored attempt to force Native Americans to assimilate into Western culture through farming. In 1879, multiple Utes revolted against the Agency, resulting in the extraction of Utes from Colorado into reservations
During the Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1858, approximately how many people attempted to move to Colorado in search of gold?
100,000 people
What was the name of the brothers who committed a string of murders across Colorado in 1863?
The Espinosa brothers
While now abandoned, what was the name of the black community of settlers located east of present-day Greely?
Dearfield
Winter Park was independently owned and operated by what city in Colorado until 2002?
Denver