Vocabulary & Bonus
Dominguez & Escalante
Rendezvous
Famous Mountain Men
The Spanish
100
To recover or regain.
What is to retrieve?
100
The city where Dominguez and Escalante were based in.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
100
A gathering place where trappers sold furs, bought supplies, and socialized.
What is a rendezvous?
100
Had his ear ripped off by a grizzly bear and lived to tell the tale.
Who was Jedediah Smith?
100
A town founded by Catholic Priests in order to convert the local natives to Christianity.
What is a mission?
200
The name of the territory purchased from France that doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
200
The city Dominguez and Escalante were trying to find a land route to.
What is Monterey, California?
200
The main animal mountain men hunted in the west.
What is a beaver?
200
Probably never visited the city named after him.
Who was Peter Skene Ogden?
200
A military post, controlled by the Spanish governor, built to protect Catholic Priests and settlers from native attacks.
What is a presidio?
300
The name of the President of the United States who sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
They stopped and camped with the Ute Indians by this lake in Utah.
What is Utah Lake?
300
A hiding place in the ground where mountain men would hide their stuff.
What is a cache?
300
Travelled West and became a mountain man after escaping slavery.
Who was James Beckwourth?
300
Quite possibly the first European/white man to enter today's border's of Utah; Spanish explorer looking for gold along the Colorado River.
Who was Juan Rivera?
400
Built a trading post in Wyoming when his mountain man days were done; helped the Mormon pioneers settle the Great Basin.
Who was Jim Bridger?
400
The reason why Dominguez and Escalante were trying to find this route.
What is dangerous cannibal Indians in Arizona?
400
An animal's skin, since being removed from its body.
What is a pelt?
400
A French trapper who survived a Ute Indian raid by Utah Lake.
Who was Etienne Provost?
400
The belief that you are superior because of your culture or religion.
What is ethnocentricity?
500
The angry little troll who was the Emperor of France; wanted to take over the world.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
500
FOOLED YOU! HA!
Every generation of Pokémon has a Pokémon that is so powerful, it could be considered a legendary, even though it isn't.
This is the first "pseudo-legendary" Pokémon.
What is Dagonite?
Dragonite can learn Hyperbeam, one of the most powerful moves in the Pokémon world.
500
The exchange of stuff for other stuff; business without the use of money.
What is bartering?
500
Served as a guide for many pioneers coming West later in his life.
Who was Joseph R. Walker?
500
BONUS QUESTION
The Spanish, when they invaded the Americas, took down two HUGE Native American empires in Central and South America. What were the names of these native empires?
What were the Aztec and the Inca?