Study Guide

Question 1

Name Two Reasons why people kept coming to the desert (and Utah)

Answer 1

railroad isolates

Question 2

What were the three main occupations (jobs) to Utah territory

Answer 2

land, family and schools

Question 3

Name the railroad companies who built the transcontinental

Answer 3

Ogden

Question 4

What country did the railroad companies hire thousands of workers from?

Answer 4

salt lake

Question 5

what did many railroad workers die from?

Answer 5

cold and dynamite

Question 6

where did the two railroad workers meet (in Utah)?

Answer 6

prominent summit

Question 7

on what day did they meet

Answer 7

May 10 1869

Question 8

how many Chinese men were killed or critically injured while helping to build the railroads?

Answer 8

2.000

Question 9

What did some Chinese workers open, after the railroads were built?

Answer 9

Laundry

Question 10

the railroad also put stress on local Utah businesses. Why did some Utah manufacturers and cooperatives go out of business?

Answer 10

Cheapen

Question 11

What two Utah cities were connected by the Utah central Railroad?

Answer 11

Ogden salt lake

Question 12

Major john Wesley Powell set out to collect samples of what three things?

Answer 12

rocks plants animals

Question 13

What landmark is named after John W. Powell?

Answer 13

Glem canyon dam

Question 14

What was the first settlement/town for coverts from Hawii, New Zealand etc. Called?

Answer 14

A shelly valley

Question 15

What landmark is named after John W. Powell?

Answer 15

Glam canyon dam

Question 16

list three other Protestant groups who came to Utah in the 1870/80

Answer 16

Catholics note stint Methodist

Question 17

What cathedral did Reverenced Scanlon help build?

Answer 17

cratndral of the madeleine

Question 18

When was the first electrical light display?

Answer 18

1880

Question 19

What was Salt Air? Be specific.

Answer 19

cement park

Question 20

why was lagoon built between Salt Lake City and Ogden?

Answer 20

to encorge people

Question 21

When did Utah’s first demonstration of the telephone take place

Answer 21

1879`

Question 22

When did Utah’s first demonstration of the telephone take place

Answer 22

1879`

Question 23

Why did miners usually end up in debt to the mining company?

Answer 23

coal camps

Question 24

Which reservation is the largest in the U.S.?

Answer 24

Nalajo indpan

Question 25

Who were the buffalo soldiers?

List Three of their duties

Answer 25

Soldiers

Guards helped cleared roads

Question 26

What was Butch Cassidy’s real name?

Answer 26

Robert Parker

Question 27

were did he and his long term partners flee to?

Answer 27

Argentina