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Question 1

What year did the first group of Mormons reach the Great Salt Lake valley?

Answer 1

1847

Question 2

When was the concept of Manifest Destiny first started?

Answer 2

1845

Question 3

What year was the Johnson County War?

Answer 3

1892

Question 4

When and what year did the railway meet?

Answer 4

1869 Utah, promontory point

Question 5

What year was the drought on the Plains?

Answer 5

1886

Question 6

What year was the Pony Express created?

Answer 6

1860

Question 7

When the did the American Civil War start and end?

Answer 7

1861-1865

Question 8

When was the Californian gold rush?

Answer 8

1848

Question 9

Who and what year was travel by stagecoach made possible?

Answer 9

William Fargo and Henry Wells((Wells Fargo Express)) in 1850

Question 10

What year was barbed wire patented and by who?

Answer 10

1874- Joseph Glidden

Question 11

What year did John Illif win the contract to supply beef to the Sioux?

Answer 11

1868

Question 12

What year did John Illif pioneer a second trail to Denver from Wyoming?

Answer 12

1867

Question 13

The building of the railway started in what year?

Answer 13

1862

Question 14

What year was the Timber and Stone act?

Answer 14

1878

Question 15

What year was the Desert Land Act?

Answer 15

1877

Question 16

What year did grasshoppers plague the Plains?

Answer 16

1870

Question 17

What year was the economic depression?

Answer 17

1837

Question 18

What year did Joseph Smith found the Mormon religion?

Answer 18

1820

Question 19

What year was Joseph Smith shot?

Answer 19

1844