The leader of the Shoshone who signed treaties with the U.S. government in order to keep the peace.
Who is Chief Washakie?
100
These explorers were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the western part of the U.S.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
100
This is the word for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
This is the name for land owned by the government.
What is public lands?
100
Miners and other settlers eventually left behind this...
What is a ghost town?
200
The Shoshone and the Bannock made up this united group:
What is Snake Nation?
200
This area of land was purchased from from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
This movement began in New York, but was very successful in the Mountain States, beginning with Wyoming.
What is women's suffrage?
200
This government organization was set up to preserve and protect the land.
What is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)?
200
This word means "across the continent".
What is "transcontinental"?
300
This agreement was signed between the Shoshone and the U.S. government. It stated where the Shoshone could hunt and established reservations on which they would live.
What is the Fort Bridger Treaty?
300
This is the word for a journey taken for a specific purpose.
What is an expedition?
300
This/these woman/women worked tirelessly for women's right to vote.
Who is (any:) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Esther Morris?
300
These are the two most important industries in the Mountain States...
What are tourism and mining?
300
The transcontinental railroad was mainly built by which group of people?
Who are Chinese immigrants?
400
Chief Washakie asked that the U.S. government build this/these for his people.
What are (any of): schools, churches, hospitals
400
This Shoshone served as a guide and translator for the white explorers, and helped them establish positive relationships with other Native American groups.
Who is Sacagawea?
400
This was passed by Congress in 1919, allowing women equal voting rights.
What is the Nineteeth Amendment?
400
These are two recreational activities the Mountain States has to offer tourists.
What are: skiing, winter sports, mountain climbing, rafting...
400
This was greatly affected by the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the buffalo population / the Shoshone who were buffalo hunters.
500
This festival gives Shoshone people the opportunity to dance, sing, and celebrate together.
What is a powwow? (or What is the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival?)
500
Boom towns sprang up in the Mountain States region because of this.
What is fur trapping, spread of religion, and/or mining?
500
This woman led the suffrage movement in Wyoming.
Who is Esther Morris?
500
The Mountain States region has a low ______ but a high number of _____.
What is:
a low POPULATION and high number of TOURISTS.
500
This is the site of the discovery of gold in Colorado.