This Native American tribe lived in the Southwest and were nomads.
What are the Apache?
100
The Spanish built religious settlements in the Southwest called these.
What are missions?
100
Before this became a state in 1907, the U.S. government gave land to people who would move there for free, called land grants.
What is Oklahoma?
200
This is the location of our nation's lowest elevation and driest average temperature.
What is Death Valley, CA?
200
This state is closest to the equator and has the warmest average temperature.
What is Hawaii?
200
The first Europeans to claim land in the Southwest were from this country.
What is Spain?
200
These two men were hired to explore the Louisiana Purchase for the U.S. in 1804.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
200
This state was first part of a territory of Spain, then was part of Mexico, then it became its own nation for a few years, and later a state of the U.S.
What is Texas?
300
Most of the Southwest is made up of these two landforms.
What are plains and deserts?
300
It is too cold for trees to grow above this.
What is the timberline?
300
This Native American tribe was moved by our government from the east along the "Trail of Tears" to live in the Indian Territory in what is today Oklahoma in the Southwest.
What is the Cherokee?
300
This person was a guide on a famous exploration of our country, who is now pictured on the gold dollar.
Who is Sacagawea?
300
These were the 49th and 50th states added to our nation.
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
400
This is the name and state of the highest elevation in the U.S.
What is Mt. McKinley in Alaska?
400
This is the location of the coldest ever recorded temperature in our nation.
What is Prospect Creek, Alaska?
400
Name two of the many Native American tribes that lived in the West region.
What is the Shoshone, Paiute, Yokuts, Pomo, and Makah?
400
Gold was first discovered out west in this town in California in 1848.
What is Sacramento?
400
The Transcontinental Railroad was started in Nebraska and California before it met in the middle in this state.
What is Utah?
500
The West region is known for this landform.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
500
Because the Southwest is typically so dry that people have to rely on resevoirs and dams for their water, they use these to deliver the water to cities and towns.
What are aquifers?
500
Rivers were important to the Native Americans in the West because of these two reasons.
What is travel and trade?
500
Most settlers that moved West joined one of these, a group of wagons pulled by horses, so that their journey would be safer.
What is a wagon train?
500
The Pony Express began in this state in the Midwest but carried mail throughout the West.