Gold Rush
This is the name for a town that was deserted because the mining went dry.
What is "ghost-town"?
This is the simplest kind of mining.
What is "placer" mining?
This is the main animal raised by Idaho ranchers.
What is the cow, or cattle?
This person signed the state of Idaho into existence as the Idaho Territory.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the difference between farming in the Northern part of the state and the Southern part. It was the reason farming in the South was much more difficult.
What was dry conditions, dry earth or lack of water.
Immigrants came from all over the world to look for gold in Idaho, but the largest group of immigrants were from this country.
What is China? (Or who are the Chinese?)
For a long time, Idaho led the country mining this kind of metal.
What is silver mining?
This is the main tree logged in Idaho.
What is the White Pine?
This was passed in 1862 and gave 160 acres of "free" land to settlers in the West.
What was the Homestead Act?
These are some cash crops grown in Idaho today that early settlers also grew. You must name 2.
What are potatoes, sugar beets, barley, wheat, mint, apples, and cherries?
Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming were once part of this "country" or territory.
What was Oregon territory/country?
This was a controversial kind of mining that used high-pressured water.
What is "hydraulic" mining?
This is/was a conflict between sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers.
What was a "range war"?
Many homesteaders came to idaho to get away from this event.
What was " the Civil War"?
This was the Act that allowed private companies to develop irrigation systems in Idaho to help farmers.
What was the Carey Act?
This tribe had a chief's daughter who led prospectors to gold in Idaho.
Who were the Nez Perce?
This was a disaster in which workers pushed a train car filled with dynamite into a mine. They were unhappy due to bad wages and dangerous working conditions.
What was the Bunker Hill mine?
These are towns in Idaho originally settled for logging. You must name at least two.
What are: Potlatch, McCall, Council, Horseshoe Bend, Cascade, Post Falls, Harrison, St Maries, Coeur d'Alene and Bayview?
This town is where the first railroad was built to in Idaho. It came from Ogden, UT.
What is Franklin, Idaho?
This was the place in which they moved the town in order to build a large lake and dam.
Where is American Falls?
Elias Pierce led a group of prospectors from California to Idaho in this year.
What was 1860?
This was a union leader in Idaho with the Western Federation of Miners who went on trial. He was not convicted because there was not enough evidence.
Who was Bill Haywood?
This man was hailed as a hero because he led firefighters to a mine shaft to escape a huge fire in Northern Idaho. Today there is a tool named after him.
Who was Edward Pulaski?
This was Idaho's first governor. He held office for 2 months before stepping down to run for the senate.
Who was George Shoup?
This man was a plant scientist who was responsible for developing the "Idaho Potato", a Russett potato.
Who was Luther Burbank?