Vocabulary
I LIKE TRAINS!
Electricity
Utah Schooling
Bonus Trivia
100
To supply with food and other necessities of life.
What is to sustain?
100
Do you like trains?
The answer better be yes.
100
The first display of electric lights in Utah was in 1880 at this event.
What is the circus?
100
The first college that was opened in the Utah Territory.
What was the University of Deseret?
(Double if you can tell me what it is called today)
100
The nickname given to African-American Civil War veterans who settled in Duchesne by Ute Indians.
What were Buffalo Soldiers?
200
To withdraw from office or business, usually because of age.
What is to retire?
200
The place in Utah where the transcontinental railroad met.
What is Promontory Summit?
200
The streetcars in Utah were powered by overhead ____________.
What are powerlines?
200
The college located here in Ogden that started as Weber Academy in 1889.
also...
THE BEST COLLEGE IN UTAH
NO EXCEPTIONS
MR. SESSIONS IS ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT THIS
What is Weber State University?
GREAT GREAT GREAT
200
The man responsible for building Utah's first Catholic Cathedral here in Ogden.
(pg. 195)
Who was the Reverend Lawrence Scanlan?
300
To leave completely or finally; to desert.
What is to abandon?
300
This group sacrificed more than 2,000 of their own people to build the transcontinental railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
300
Utah's first amusement park.
What is the Saltair?
300
This college began as the Agricultural College of Utah. Today, it is known as ______________________.
What is Utah State University?
300
The name of the famous western outlaw from Utah that was never caught.
(pg. 204)
Who was Butch Cassidy?
400
A place or point where two roads or tracks meet.
What is a junction?
400
Many workers building the railroad through the Sierra-Nevada Mountains died from this infectious disease; cause by contaminated water or food.
What is cholera?
400
At first, only ___________ and ___________ could afford the first telephones.
Who were businesses and the very wealthy?
400
This bill passed by Congress guaranteed free public elementary schools for children across the nation.
What was the Free Public School Act?
400
The name of the LDS Polynesian town in Utah that was abandoned when an LDS Temple was built in Hawaii.
(pg. 191)
What was Iosepa?
500
A furious rush of river water.
What is a cataract?
500
(DAILY DOUBLE)
1. Name the 2 railroad companies Congress hired to build the transcontinental railroad.
2. Tell us where each railroad company started laying tracks and which direction they went.
1. What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads?
2. Union Pacific started in Nebraska working west. Central Pacific started in California working east.
500
Marowak, a OG Pokemon, is normally a Ground-type. However, in the Alola Region, Marowak there look different and have 2 types.
What 2 types are Alolan Marowak?
What is Fire/Ghost?
500
Unlike other colleges that popped up in the late 1800's in Utah that were founded by Mormons, Westminster College was founded by this religious group.
What is the Presbyterian Church?
500
This Silver King (a person who made it rich from mining silver here in Utah) was an active-Church-going Mormon.
(pg. 201)
Who was Jesse Knight?