People and History of the Mountain West Region
Activity 8



1.    Before trappers and settlers went west, who lived in the Mountain West Region?
 

2.    What animal did they follow across the plains?
 

3.    How many Indian tribes live in Montana today?
 

4.    How many reservations are in Montana?
 

5.    What is a reservation?
 

6.    What percent of people in Montana are Native Americans?
 

7.    How do Native Americans celebrate their culture?
 

8.    The historic Indian tribes in Wyoming were nomadic tribes. What were they called?
 

9.    What does nomadic mean?
 

10.  What two Plains Indian tribes were the last to be controlled and put on reservations?
 

11.  What were Plainsmen?
 

12.  What country once owed a large piece of the Mountain West region?
 

13.  Which United States president bought the Lousiana Territory?
 

14.  What did it do to the size of the United States?
 

15.  This territory helped shape the boundaries of how many states?
 

16.  Who did President Jefferson hire to explore and map this new territory?
 

17.  What Native American female helped them explore the land?
 

18.  How old was she?
 

18.  How did Sacagawea help the expedition?
 

19.  What are some of the things that made Lewis and Clark's expedition hard?
 

20.  When was the west settled?
 

21.  Why did people leave the east and go west?
 

22.  What forms of transportation did they use to travel west?
 

23.  Who came west?
 

24.  Was life easy for pioneer women?
 

25.  What famous people explored the west?
 

26.  Who was Daniel Boone?
 

27.  Where did he settle?
 

28.  Who was Davy Crockett?
 

29.    Initially, how did people travel west?
 

30.    What forms of transportation came next?
 

31.    The greatest historical event in transportation occured on May 10, 1869. What was it?
 

32.    How many miles did the tracks cover?
 

33.    Where did the tracks begin and end?
 

34.  Before building the railroad, how many months did it take for pioneers to travel west?
 

35.  How many days did it take to travel west after the railroad was built?
 

36.  What groups of people begged for railroads to the west?