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Postwar Boom
Postwar Politics....
Troubled Times
100
This outbreak killed over 8000 Coloradans
What is the Spanish Flu
100
The U.S. Colonel commanded the attack during the Sand Creek Massacre
Who is Colonel John Chivington
100
This place produced 70,000 plutonium triggers during the Cold War.
What is Rocky Mountain Flats
100
This team was the first professional football team in Colorado
Who are the Denver Broncos
100
This movement begun in the 1950s and sought to protect the rights of African Americans
What is the Civil Rights Movement
200
Name the Japanese relocation camp in Colorado.
What is Amache
200
This Bonanza region was named after a cow became injured, a horse fell over the cow, and the man fell off of the horse.
What is Cripple Creek
200
This place made rocket fuel and chemical weapons during the Cold War.
What is the Rocky Mountain Arsenal
200
Name two health problems in Colorado following WW2 that are discussed in the book
What is ...name'em
200
This war in the 1960s resulted in numerous student protests in Colorado
What is the Vietnam War
300
The Union of Colony Association was formed in this town/city, after buying 72,000 acres of land charging farmers $155 membership fees.
What is Greeley
300
This was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families on April 20, 1914. Some two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed.
What is the Ludlow Massacre
300
This opened in 1973 (not 1873)
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel
300
This U.S. president promoted highway building, and allocated federal funds to Colorado to build them
Who is Eisenhower
300
Name one of the Chicano Movement organizations
What is the GI Forum, League of Latin American Citizens, and Colorado Latin American Conference, or the Latin American Education Foundation
400
Name the "Denver Triad" that moralists attacked during the Progressive Era
What is gambling, brothels, and saloons
400
This was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
What is the Chicano Movement
400
This ore was mined in Colorado during the Cold War to help build atomic weapons.
What is uranium
400
This woman became the champion of better public health in the 1940s-1960s
Who is Florence Rena Sabin
400
This was the leader of the Colorado Chicano Movement
Who is Corky Gonzales
500
Name one of the two New Deal groups who helped build Red Rocks
What is the CCC and WPA
500
This treaty allocated much of eastern Colorado to the Cheyennes and Arapahos in 1851
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
500
This place was the 3rd ranking recipient of tourist dollars in Colorado in 1980.
What is Vail
500
Name two of the diseases that Sabin hoped to combat
What is ....Polio, measles, diphtheria, syphilis, scarlet fever, whooping cough
500
This holiday was created in Colorado by the general assembly in 1984
What is MLK Day