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Fur Trade
100

The first animal to be domesticated

What is a dog?

100
This large montain range runs through Western Montana.

What is the Rockies? 

100

This was the official name given to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

What is the Corps of Discovery? 

100

This is Montana's rank on the list of largest US states. 

What is fourth? 

100

The primary target of the early fur trade. A semi-aquatic mammal. 

What is a beaver? 

200

This country reintroduced horses to North America.

What is Spain? 

200

This is the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. 

What is Flathead Lake? 

200

The term was used to describe the belief that westward expansion was inevitable and backed by God. 

What is Manifest Destiny? 

200

The two national parks of Montana. 

What are Glacier and Yellowstone? 

200

The first major corporation established in the Americas.

What is the Hudsons Bay Company? 

300

This word describes a group of people with European and Native American parents. 

Who are the Metis? 

300

This city in Gallatin County is one of the fastest growing places in the state.

What is Bozeman? 

300

The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated between Thomas Jefferson and this French ruler. 

Who is Napoleon? 

300

The number of reservations in Montana.

What is 7? 

300

This large fort on the Missouri River was a must stop for traders in Montana.

What is Fort Benton? 

400

The exchange of food, animals, disease, etc. between the Old World (Africa, Asia, Europe) and the New World (the Americas)

What is the Columbian Exchange? 

400

This river in Eastern Montana shares its name with a body part.

What is the Tongue River? 

400

The river that William Clark came back through Montana on when the expedition made their return trip. 

What is the Yellowstone? 

400

This river in Great Falls holds the record for the shortest river in the world. 

What is the Roe river?

400

The name of the church built in the Bitterroot Valley by Father De Smet and Ravalli along with the Salish tribe.

What is St. Mary's Mission? 

500

These two things arrived in Montana around 1720 and changed the course of our history.

What are guns and horses? 

500

The only county in Montana that shares its name with the largest city in that county. 

What is Missoula? 

500

The breed of dog owned by Lewis that joined the expedition West. 

What is a Newfoundland? 

500

These words appear on Montana's state seal/state flag.

What is oro y plata? 

500

The two final remaining "puddles" of bison populations in North America in 1890 when the population was at its lowest.  

Where are Texas (Panhandle) and (Eastern) Montana?