VOCABULARY
PIONEERS
TERRITORIAL UTAH
STATEHOOD
GOVERMENT EXPLORERS
100
High, wide, flat area
What is a plateau?
100
Grid Pattern, Wide Main & Side Streets, Large City Blocks, Public Buildings/Parks called Squares, and farm lands beyond.
What are the features of pioneer towns?
100
Fillmore, Utah
What was Utah's first capital?
100
Polygamy
What is one of the reasons it took Utah so long to become a state?
100
The Pathfinder
Who is John C. Fremont?
200
Native to Utah
What is indigenous?
200
Wagons, HandCarts, Down & Back Again Wagon Trains, and Trains
What are the ways in which Mormon Pioners traveled to Utah?
200
Brigham Young
Who was Utah's first territorial governor?
200
January 4, 1896
What is the day that Utah became a state?
200
Gain knowlede of and map the western United States.
Why did the government send explorers to Utah?
300
Scientist who studies early peoples
What is an archeologist?
300
New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Utah
What is the pattern of migration for Mormons?
300
Compromised of 1850
What made Utah a territory?
300
Women' Suffrage
What is one of the major issuses debated during Utah's Constitutional Convention?
300
Killed by a group of Pahvant Indians
Who was John W. Gunnison?
400
Young riders carrying the mail.
What is the Pony Express?
400
July 24, 1847
What is the date Brigham Young arrived in Utah?
400
John D. Lee
Who took the rap for Mountain Meadows Massacre?
400
John Henry Smith
Who was Utah's Constitutional Convention President?
400
Became a U.S. senator
Who is John C. Fremont?
500
Communication over wires using Morse Code
What is the telegraph?
500
Group of young men who left the Mormon Pioneers to fight in the Mexican War.
What is the Mormon Battalion?
500
The kiling of 120 men, women, and children, in Southern Utah
What is the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
500
Prohibition
What prohibits the sell, consumptions, and making of alcohol?
500
His expedition is credited with establishing a southern wagon road to California, military road used by U.S. government to come to Utah, and determined that a railroad route should go through Wyoming and Northern Utah, not centeral Utah.
Who is John W. Gunnison?