An area set aside by the federal government is known as?
What is a national park
100
Name two different Native American tribes that we discussed in class.
What is The Pueblo and The Tlingit
100
Name one way that Spain influenced the West
What is architecture, customs, and food
100
Name 3 reasons why people wanted to travel West.
What is gold, land, jobs
200
What 3 regions is the West divided into?
What is Pacific, Mountain, Southwest
200
If a business only makes a few goods or provides just one service, this is known as?
What is specialization
200
Some scientists believe that over 15,000 years ago people crossed a ___________ to that was once connected to present day Asia and Alaska.
What is a landbridge
200
What happened as the Spanish conquered more land?
What is They wanted to control the land and the Native Americans who lived there. The Spanish used force and many Native Americans died.
200
What was a wagon train?
What is a line of wagons that carried settlers and everything they owned
300
What are 3 major landforms found in the West?
What is mountains, deserts, and valleys
300
Name two natural resources that can be found in the West.
What is soil, tress, oceans, lakes, minerals (coal)
300
Name 3 facts about the Pueblos.
What is 700 years ago, Present day New Mexico, skilled farmers, built irrigation ditches, grew corn-beans-squash- and cotton-hunted animals,apartment like buildings
300
Native Americans were forced to live on_________
What is a reservation
300
This trail started in Missouri and guided travelers and their wagons out West.
What is Oregon Trail
400
Heat from beneath earth's crust is known as?
What is geothermal
400
Name 2 different ways that people use resources in the West.
What is mining and logging
400
Name 3 facts about the Tlingits
What is Northwest coast, large wooden houses, gathered wild plants, hunting and fishing,traded seal oil, artists,
400
What did the American Indians and The Spanish learn from each other?
What is American Indians learned to speak Spanish, and raise Spanish crops and animals. Learned Spanish trades and crafts. The Spanish learned to build with adobe and how to make Indian foods.
400
The first train system to link the East and the West
What is the transcontinental railroad
500
Supplying the land with water is known as?
What is irrigation
500
Name a job that requires a skilled worker
What is building computers
500
A settlement for teaching religion to local people is known as
What is a mission
500
What is Adobe?
What is a type of clay The Native Americans (Pueblo) used to build with
500
Name at least one reason why the building of the transcontinental railroad was important to the West
What is first train system to link the east and the west, provided many jobs, also allowed the population in the West to grow