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Utah's Peoples
Native Americans, Explorers and Pioneers
Question | Answer |
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What are the the five tribes of Utah Native Americans? | Utes, Goshutes, Shoshone, Paiute, Navajo |
Which tribes are considered prehistoric? | Fremont, Anasazi |
When the LDS pioneers arrived in Utah in 1847, what country claimed ownership of Utah? | Mexico |
This group of Utah explorers made the most precise, scientific maps | government explorers |
This famous trapper was of African descent, had married a Native American woman, and wrote a famous autobiography | James Beckwourth |
When did Joseph Smith start the LDS Church? And what state was he living in when he did this? | 1830 in New York |
This trapper proved that there was no river that left the Great Salt Lake: | Jedediah Smith |
Beaver pelts were very valuable because | beaver hats were highly fashionable |
In Missouri in 1835, Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued an "extermination order" against the Mormons. What did this mean? | that the Mormon people were either to leave Missouri or be killed |
This town, built by the LDS people, became the largest city in Illinois at the time: | Nauvoo |
In order to create accurate maps and reports on what they saw, government explorers (like Fremont) were trained to be experts on | science |
When Dominguez and Escalante met the Timpanogot Utes | the two groups met peacefully. |
When Brigham Young first saw the Salt Lake Valley, he said | "This is the right place." |
What made the LDS migration to Utah a record-setting event in US history? | it was the largest group of people traveling together into the West |
Name the LDS leader who has often been called the "American Moses" for leading his group on the long voyage to Utah. | Brigham Young |
The LDS Winter Quarters were in | Nebraska |
What revolutionized the Ute society? | horse |
The LDS religion started in | New York |
Native American shelters include | Hogan, teepee, cliff dwellings, wicki-up |
What does prehistoric mean? | Before Europeans came to Utah and before written history |
Examples of Native American food | Beans, corn and squash, Local animals such as deer, antelope and rabbit, Local nuts, berries and roots |
Dominguez and Escalante came to Utah to find a trade route from ___________________________ to _______________________________ | Santa Fe to Monteray |
The cut off between Ft. Bridger and Utah was called _________________ | Hastings Cut off |
Date first Mormons arrived in Utah on | July 22. 1847 |
Name of Governor that issued “extermination order | Lilburn Boggs |
Had a city and river named after him | Peter Skene Ogden and Etienne Provost |
Wrote one of the earliest journals about Northern Utah saying the placae was full of huge black crickets and seagulls. | Peter Skene Ogden |
Met Ute Indians by Utah Lake and kept important journals on a journey from Santa Fe | Fathers Dominguez and Escalante |
Built a trading post in Wyoming | Jim Bridger |
First showed there were no rivers flowing out of the Great Salt Lake. | Jedediah Smith |
A hole to keep furs | Cache |
A party during the summers where mountain men would trade | Rendezvous |
Lived in Southeastern Utah around the four corners | Navajo |
Led a government science exhibition to make maps and measure the land | John C. Fremont |
Warlike and used horses | Utes |