EARLY CHICAGO DAYS
The Great Lake closest to Chicago.
The reason Fort Dearborn was built.
Mainly for protection. The government wanted to protect the important trading area, but the fort also protected the settlers living around it.
The name of the family whose barn was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire.
Who are the O'Leary's?
The first World Fair was named after them to celebrate the 400th anniversary of their arrival in the New World.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The number of stars on the Chicago flag.
What is 4 stars?
An example of a Native American tribe that used to or is still in Chicago.
What is the Potowatomi or Miami tribe?
The country the United States ordered this fort to be built to protect it from.
What is England?
The number of deaths caused by the Great Chicago Fire.
What were 300 people?
The amount of money it costs to enter the fair.
The two blue stripes on the Chicago flag stand for these two bodies of water.
What is Lake Michigan and the Chicago River?
Animals that are native to Chicago.
What are the bison, deer, wild turkey, fish, beavers, eastern gray squirrel, and eastern cottontail rabbit? (Choose any from above)
The reason Fort Dearborn was destroyed.
What was the Potowatomi tribe were mad the Americans were changing their culture, overhunting animals, and taking over their land?
The date the fire began.
What is October 8, 1871.
The World's Fair in Paris had the Eiffel Tower, but the Chicago World's Fair had this.
What was The Ferris Wheel?
The side of Chicago that most immigrants moved to and is also represented by the middle white stripe on the flag.
What is the West Side?
The first person to make the first non-Native American settlement in Chicago.
Who was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable?
The year Fort Dearborn was built.
What is 1803?
Amount of time the Great Chicago Fire lasted.
What is almost 30 hours ( oruntil Oct. 10th)?
The name of the first World's Fair.
What was the World's Columbian Exposition?
The first two red stars on the flag stand for these important parts of history.
What is Fort Dearborn and the Great Chicago Fire?
The year DuSable settled in Chicago.
What is the year 1779?
The name of the person Fort Dearborn was named after.
Henry Dearborn.
The name of the queen of England that donated 8,000 books to Chicago's library.
Who was Queen Victoria?
The real name of the second World's Fair.
What was the Century of Progress Exposition?
The last two red stars on the flag stand for these important parts of history.
What are the Two World's Fairs: World's Columbian Exposition and the Century of Progress Exposition?