This Native American tribe was settled in Northeast Ohio; one of our Great Lakes is named after them.
What is the Erie tribe?
100
This sawmill was the infamous location of where gold was first found in California.
What is Sutter's Mill?
100
This was the name of Lewis and Clarks' expedition party.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
100
This is the name of John Wayne's last film, in which he played the role of an old, dying gunfighter.
What is The Shootist?
200
The year Buffalo Bill started his infamous Wild West Show that toured the US and Europe.
What is 1883?
200
This war involved many Native Americans and lasted from 1754 to 1763.
What is the French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
200
This war ended just days after the discovery of gold and officially left California in the hands of the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
This was the name of Lewis and Clark's Native American guide.
Who is Sacagawea?
200
This is the city of the OK Corral, where Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp fought.
What is Tombstone?
300
Accomplishing this feat earned Buffalo Bill his nickname.
What is hunting and killing over 4,000 buffalo?
300
This belief was common across multiple tribes. It held that the Earth was our mother, the sky was our father, and that all things are interconnected.
What is the spirituality of Mother Earth?
300
Hordes of people came from all different places to California to try their luck. So many in fact, that the state's population reached this record-high number in 1849.
What is 100,000?
300
This is the route Lewis and Clark took on their expedition.
What is St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back?
300
This movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1990, and starred the famous actor Kevin Costner.
What is Dances with Wolves?
400
The nickname Chief Sitting Bull gave Annie during their run together on Buffalo Bill's show.
What is Little Sure Shot?
400
Members of this tribe were the first to be recognized as US Citizens in 1817.
What is the Cherokee tribe?
400
The peak of the Gold Rush happened in 1852, when the gold pulled from the ground reached this dollar amount.
What is $81 million?
400
Although the expedition is hailed as a journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase, this was the real purpose for Lewis and Clark's adventure.
What is to find a route to the Pacific to stake an American claim on trade in the Northwest?
400
This film stars the native guides Chingachgook and Hawkeye.
What is The Last of the Mohicans?
500
Name three songs from the hit Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
May vary.
500
Name the five animals which symbolized strength in Native American culture.
What are Weasel, Tiger, Lion, Elk and Elephant?
500
The Rush had many lasting effects on California, one of which involved it becoming an official state. Name the legal agreement that made it possible.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Name four things Lewis and Clark discovered on their journey. (Hint: One reptile, bird, animal and plant)
What are a rattlesnake, woodpecker, grizzly bear, and wild rice?
500
Name the top five western flicks that John Wayne has starred in.
What are Rio Bravo, The Searchers, True Grit, The Quiet Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence?