Vocabulary & Bonus
Pioneer Groups
John C. Fremont
The Donner Party
Manifest Destiny
100
Barren; deserted
What is desolate?
100
This pioneer party resorted to cannibalism to survive in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.
What is the Donner-Reed Party?
100
Fremont was originally hired to scout and map this trail.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
The Donner Party set off from Fort Bridger in late _____.
What is July?
100
The idea that Americans were meant to settle the west and expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
To replace or make complete again
What is to replenish?
200
This pioneer party was the first pioneer wagon train to travel through Utah.
What is the Bidwell-Bartleson Party?
200
Fremont's 2nd Expedition saw him explore this part of Utah.
What is Cache Valley/Bear Lake?
200
The Donner Party was stranded in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains for ___ months.
What is 5?
200
The name of the supposed shortcut through Utah that was actually longer and added 100 miles to the trip.
What was the Hastings Cutoff?
300
The name of the first non-Indian woman to enter Utah with the Bidwell-Bartleson Party.
Who was Nancy Kelsey?
300
This pioneer party traveled through Echo Canyon on mules.
What is the Bryant Party?
300
Fremont was part of the Army Corp of ____________ Engineers.
What is topographical?
300
The group met Hastings at the ________ __________ before heading west.
What are the Oquirrh Mountains?
300
The name of the fort Miles Goodyear built in present-day Ogden.
What is Fort Buenaventura?
400
Edwin Bryant, the leader of the Bryant Party, was a newspaper editor from this US State.
What is Kentucky?
400
This pioneer group were German and Swiss immigrants; bathed in the Great Salt Lake
What is the Lienhard Party?
400
Fremont's 3rd expedition saw him trying to find this.
What is a water route from the GSL to California?
400
Of the 87 people who started from Fort Bridger, only ___ lived to tell the tale.
What is 48?
400
Utah was controlled by _______ when these pioneers traveled through it.
What is Spain/Mexico?
500
POKEMON QUESTION
Each region in the Pokémon world has a Champion, or the current undefeated trainer in that region's league. The Champion is each Pokémon game's final boss.
In the Sinnoh region, who is the Champion?
Who is Cynthia?
500
This pioneer group lost a team of horses and a wagon down a cliff-face.
What is the Harlan-Young Group?
500
Fremont's final expedition saw him scouting a route for the _____________ __________.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
Snow drifts while the Donner Party was stuck reached up to ___ feet deep.
What is 60?
500
The name if the newspaper editor who invented the term 'Manifest Destiny'.
Who was John O'Sullivan?