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People who scrambled for land in Oklahoma were nicknamed what?
Land grabbers
Okies
Sooners
Soddies
Which of these people was one of the great leaders of the Ogala Lakota in the Great Sioux War?
Big Bear
Iron Crow
Red Cloud
Blue Sky
Which of these figures did NOT appear in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show?
Annie Oakley
Billy the Kid
Will Rogers
Calamity Jane
Gold was discovered in California on which person’s property?
Michael Keeley
Evan Smith
John Sutter
James Douglas
Speaking of Greeley, he ran for President and lost. Who was his opponent?
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Ulysses S. Grant
Who coined the phrase “Go west, young man.”
William Lloyd Garrison
Benjamin Franklin
William Randolph Hearst
Horace Greeley
Where in California did the Pony Express route end?
San Diego
San Jose
San Francisco
Sacramento
What state is Dodge City located in?
Montana
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
The Compromise of 1850 did all but which of the following:
Texas cedes the New Mexico territory
Slave trade was banned in D.C.
Made California a state
Kansas became a state
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Houston
Treaty of the Alamo
What disease did Doc Holliday suffer from?
Cancer
Diabetes
Lazy eye
Tuberculosis
Which US president is most closely associated with the philosophy of Manifest Destiny?
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Henry McCarty was known better by which name?
Hank the Gun
The Lone Gunman
Billy the Kid
The Ragin’ Cajun
Butch Cassidy and the _____ Kid
Sundance
Killer
Bandit
Rainbow
This city in the west is home to one of the largest Basque populations in America.
Denver
Boise
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
Some indigenous tribes in the Pacific Northwest carve these towering pieces of art.
Carved trees
Spirit poles
Totem poles
Picture trees
Los Angeles was settled by how many families?
100
11
2
50
The Hoover Dam holds back which great river?
Snake River
Colorado River
Mississippi River
Green River
Who shot and killed the outlaw Jesse James?
Thomas Brown
John Smith
Damon Holt
Robert Ford
The oldest continuous settlement in the United States is in New Mexico—who lives there?
Cherokee
Sioux
Acoma Pueblo
Ute
This ethnic group first emigrated to the American West and was instrumental in constructing the Transcontinental Railroad.
Spanish
Irish
German
Chinese
The forced removal of the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek to the West is known as what?
Road of Sorrows
Road of the Cherokee
Path of the Cherokee
Trail of Tears
“Spaghetti Westerns” became a huge movie genre. Where did the name come from?
They were Italian productions
The plots were complicated
They ate spaghetti on set
The director liked noodles.
This Wild West legend died holding a poker hand of two 8’s and two aces, now known as the “dead man’s hand”.
Doc Holliday
Wild Bill Hickok
Warren Earp
Wyatt Earp
Colorado had its own gold rush in 1859—what is it sometimes known as?
Second Gold Rush
Pike’s Peak Gold Rush
Western Gold Rush
Denver Gold Rush
Which western state is known as the “Centennial State”?
Nebraska
Colorado
Arizona
Utah
Doc Holliday was known for being a Western gunslinger and also which profession?
A banker
A dentist
A lawyer
A surgeon
This Shoshone woman accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition and proved invaluable.
Lozen
Sacagawea
Dahteste
Pocahontas
Lewis and _____
Clark
Ledyard
Jefferson
Mackenzie
This state was the last to be admitted to the United States in the 19th century.
Wyoming
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
“_____ Bill”
Buffalo
Bison
Belligerent
Blustering
While we’re on the subject, which lawman family of brothers fought at the shootout?
The Bells
The Earps
The Brooks
The Garretts
The famed “Shootout at the O.K. Corral” took place in which town?
Santa Fe
Gunsmoke
Tombstone
Colorado Springs
Which state declared independence from Mexico in 1835?
Oklahoma
California
Texas
Arizona
Wounded _____ Massacre
Heart
Head
Feet
Knee
What is the name of the mail service that connected the West in the 1860s?
Pony Express
FedEx
US Postal Service
Mail by Equine
The Battle of Little Bighorn Lakota, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne victors were led by whom?
Crazy Horse
Red Shirt
Two Bears
Custer
The US military experimented with using these animals in the Southwest.
Rattlesnakes
Horses
Buffalo
Camels
The final railroad spike that completed the First Transcontinental Railroad what made of what?
Iron
Gold
Silver
Platinum
There was a devastating earthquake in 1906 in this major California city.
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Sacramento
Western Lover
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Cowboy
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