Westward Ho! Jeopardy

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Westward Ho! Jeopardy
The West in the Mid 1800s
Mexicanos
Chinese-AmericanImmigrants
The 49ers
OregonPioneers
Nez Perce
Mormons
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• How many people died of disease in 1849?

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• 5,000 people

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• Who signed treaties with the
• Native Americans and often
• broke these treaties?

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• The U.S. Government

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• What item of clothing did ranchers
• wear to protect their legs?

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• Chaparreras

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• What is the name of the war
• that ended in 1848?

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• The Mexican-American War

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• Who moved West for free/cheap land?

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• Americans

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• What were Mexican cowboys called?

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• Vaqueros

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• What is the name of the hat worn for protection
  from the sun?

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• Sombreros

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• What year was gold
• discovered in California?

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• 1848

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• What popular magazine printed articles about
  great adventures in the West?

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• Harpers Weekly

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• What were the people called that
• were granted huge plots of land?

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• Rancheros

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• Who made more money than most miners by
• selling food, tools, and supplies at high prices?

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• Store Keepers

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• What did miners make by putting several boxes
  together to make a long narrow box?

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• Sluice

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• In January 1848, gold was discovered
• in what mountains in California?

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• The Sierra Nevada Mountains

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• What is a wooden box on rockers called?

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• Cradle

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• What is the name of the railroad company that
  laid track east of Sacramento, California?

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• Central Pacific

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• How many Chinese immigrants sailed to California
  looking for the Golden Mountain?

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• 25,000 Chinese immigrants

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• What is the name of the first railroad across the
  continent of North America?

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• The Transcontinental Railroad

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• What Act was passed in 1882?

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• The Chinese Exclusion Act

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• What years did settlers begin
• farming on the Nez Perce land?

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• In the 1840s

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• How did the Nez Perce get their name?

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• Its French for Pierced Nose.

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• What years were the Nez
• Perce forced onto a reservation?

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• In the 1870s

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• What food did the Nez Perce eat?

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• Salmon, wild berries
• and root plants

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• How far was the journey
• from Missouri to Oregon?

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• 2,000 miles

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• What animals did Native Americans
• depend on for food?

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• Buffalo

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• What is the name of a wooden frame that fastens
  around an animals neck?

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• A Yoke

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• How many Americans
• traveled the Oregon trail?

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• Close to 10,000

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• What did Chief Joseph do
• after he fought bravely?

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• He surrendered

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• What is the name of the railroad
• company building from Nebraska?

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• Union Pacific

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• What is an area of land
• called worked by miners?

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• Claims

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• What is the practice of
• having two or more wives?

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• Polygamy

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• What is the name of the
• trail the pioneers traveled?

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• Oregon Trail

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• In what state did the church begin?

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• New York

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• Who started the Mormon church?

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• Joseph Smith

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• What is the name of the church
• that the Mormons are members?

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• Church of Jesus Christ
• of Latter-Day Saints

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• What is the name of people that try to
• get other people to adopt religion?

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• Missionaries

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