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Rocky Mountain States Geography Flashcards

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Three industrialists, William Clark, F. Augustus Heinze, and Marcus Daly who heavily shaped Montana

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Copper Kings

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Montana city dominated by the Anaconda Copper Company

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Butte

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Montana representative who voted against both World Wars

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Jeanette Rankin

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Mountain range separating Idaho and Montana

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Bitterroot Mountains

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Three rivers whose confluence forms the Missouri River in Montana

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Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison Rivers

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Scenic mountain pass in Glacier National Park in Montana

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Going-to-the-Sun Road

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Highest peak in Montana

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Granite Peak

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Slaughter of Piegan Blackfeet Indians in Montana by the US Army

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Marias Massacre

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Famous Peak in Glacier National Park

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Triple Divide Peak

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Ethnic group closely associated with Boise Idaho

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Basques

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Man who made up the word Idaho, as well as a fake Shoshone origin

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George M. Willing

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Famed Idaho Ski Town

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Couer d’Alene

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Idaho national monument filled with lava fields

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Craters of the Moon National Monument

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14
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Highest Peak in Idaho

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Borah Peak

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Large Montana Dam on the Missouri River, creating the 5th largest artificial lake in the US

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Fort Peck Dam

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16
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Wyoming was the first state to provide this

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Women’s Suffrage

17
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First Female Governor in American History, governing Wyoming

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Nellie Ross

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Gay man who was victim of a hate murder in Wyoming

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Matthew Shepard

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Scenic road connecting Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park

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John d. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway

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Highest point in Wyoming

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Gannett Peak

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Multi colored spring north of Old Faithful

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Grand Prismatic Spring

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Mountain Range in Yellowstone

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Absaroka Mountains

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Mass Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians led by Black Kettle in Colorado by John Chivington

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Sand Creek Massacre

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Massacre during which Colorado National Guard killed strikers in a site run by John Rockefeller Jr.

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Ludlow Massacre

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Tallest Peak in Colorado

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Mount Elbert

26
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Mountain near Colorado Springs

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Pikes Peak

27
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Large red rock formation in Colorado

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Garden of the Gods

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