Vocabulary & Bonus
Pioneer Groups
John C. Fremont
The Donner Party
Manifest Destiny
100

Barren; deserted

What is desolate?

100

This pioneer party resorted to cannibalism to survive in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.

What is the Donner-Reed Party?

100

Fremont was originally hired to scout and map this trail.

What is the Oregon Trail?

100

The Donner Party set off from Fort Bridger in late _____.

What is July?

100

The idea that Americans were meant to settle the west and expand across the continent.

What is Manifest Destiny?

200

To replace or make complete again

What is to replenish?

200

This pioneer party was the first pioneer wagon train to travel through Utah.

What is the Bidwell-Bartleson Party?

200

Fremont's 2nd Expedition saw him explore this part of Utah.

What is Cache Valley/Bear Lake?

200

The Donner Party was stranded in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains for ___ months.

What is 5?

200

The name of the supposed shortcut through Utah that was actually longer and added 100 miles to the trip.

What was the Hastings Cutoff?

300

The name of the first non-Indian woman to enter Utah with the Bidwell-Bartleson Party.

Who was Nancy Kelsey?

300

This pioneer party traveled through Echo Canyon on mules.

What is the Bryant Party?

300

Fremont was part of the Army Corp of ____________ Engineers.

What is topographical?

300

The group met Hastings at the ________ __________ before heading west.

What are the Oquirrh Mountains? 

300

The name of the fort Miles Goodyear built in present-day Ogden.

What is Fort Buenaventura?

400

Edwin Bryant, the leader of the Bryant Party, was a newspaper editor from this US State.

What is Kentucky?

400

This pioneer group were German and Swiss immigrants; bathed in the Great Salt Lake

What is the Lienhard Party?

400

Fremont's 3rd expedition saw him trying to find this.

What is a water route from the GSL to California?

400

Of the 87 people who started from Fort Bridger, only ___ lived to tell the tale.

What is 48?

400

Utah was controlled by _______ when these pioneers traveled through it.

What is Spain/Mexico?

500

POKEMON QUESTION

Each region in the Pokémon world has a Champion, or the current undefeated trainer in that region's league. The Champion is each Pokémon game's final boss.

In the Sinnoh region, who is the Champion?

Who is Cynthia?

500

This pioneer group lost a team of horses and a wagon down a cliff-face.

What is the Harlan-Young Group?

500

Fremont's final expedition saw him scouting a route for the _____________ __________.

What is the transcontinental railroad?

500

Snow drifts while the Donner Party was stuck reached up to ___ feet deep.

What is 60?

500

The name if the newspaper editor who invented the term 'Manifest Destiny'.

Who was John O'Sullivan?

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