COLORADO HISTORY JEOPARDY Trappers / Traders Mining Homesteading Famous Colorado People Important State Facts

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COLORADO HISTORY JEOPARDY questions & answers

Trappers / Traders
What animal were mountain men mostly trapping? beaver Where was Bents Fort located? (state and part of state) Colorado, in the SE of state. What is the French word that means come together?
(mountain men would come together once a year for this meeting)

Mining
Where was the largest silver nugget found? Smuggler Mine Why did silver prices fall in 1893? Sherman Silver Act

Homesteading
What is the name of the homesteading town north of Denver? Keota

Famous Colorado People

Important State Facts

rendevous William Bent married _________. She was part of the _______ tribe. Owl Woman, Cheyenne Who was a famous trapper born on Christmas Eve 1809? Kit Carson

Who is Pikes Peak What year did named after (first & Colorado become last)? Zebulon Pike a state? 1876 What type of house What Colorado What is Colorados did many settlers town did Molly state flower? on the plains build? Brown first live? Blue Columbine Sod Houses Leadville (soddies) Where did Horace Why didnt many What was Buffalo What president and Baby Doe Tabor frontier children Bills real name? bought the mine? attend school? William Frederick Louisiana Purchase near Leadville Too much work to Cody from France? be done on ranch / Thomas Jefferson farm or not close What 2 rivers meet What did the Who first explored What is Colorados up at Confluence younger girls usually the Colorado state bird? Park in Denver? do on laundry River? Lark bunting Cherry Creek & day? Carried John Wesley Powell South Platte water or gathered fuel for fire What are three Where did 3 Irishmen Why was the Who started the Homestead Act geographic features of strike it rich from first Denver Colorado? may important? more gold mining? newspaper? varymountains, people moved West & Cripple Creek William Byers it gave land to people plains, desert, sand
if farmed it for 5 years. dunes, rivers

1803
Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase.

1806
Zebulon Pike first entered present-day Colorado to explore.

1833
Bents Fort was built.

1858
First gold discovered in Colorado at Cherry Creek.

1876
Colorado becomes a state.

1879
Aspen and Smuggler Mines open.

1887
The railroad first reaches Aspen, Colorado.

1893
Sherman Silver Act demonetizes (lowers) silver prices.

1912
Wealthy Colorado woman, Molly Brown, helps passengers to safety after Titanic disaster.

1960
The Denver Broncos team started.