Utah History Final Test Study Guide - Andrew Otto
Utah History Final Test Study Guide
Most of the test questions are contained here. Study this for the final test. The final test will be a multiple-choice format.
There are three maps on the test. Prior to the test ask Mr. Otto to fill in these maps for you to study from.
A tribal locations map will be on the test. Know all five.
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Five of these city locations will be on the test.
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Four of these physical features will be on the test.
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Long distant, instant communication was first made possible by the telegraph.
The transcontinental railroad was built by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
The large fault line in Salt Lake County is called the Wasatch Fault.
In 1857 the approach of a United States Army led by A. S. Johnston, as well as a new governor, Alfred Cumming, results in the Utah War.
Franklin Roosevelt was president during most of the Great Depression and most of World War 2.
Mountain men were hunting beaver.
The federal government controls the majority of Utah’s land today.
Jedediah Smith discovered South Pass, a way through the Rocky Mountains.
Salt Lake Valley was located between the Ute and Shoshone Indians.
The Mormon Battalion marches off to war against Mexico.
Planning early Utah towns followed several guidelines, but they did not place government buildings outside of town.
Sundance Film Festival takes place at Park City.
The chief executive of a city is a mayor.
The Great Depression ends with the beginning of World War 2.
The Green and Colorado rivers were explored by John Wesley Powell.
All five of Utah’s national parks are located within the Colorado Plateau.
Those responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre tried to put the blame on the Paiute Indians.
The Black Hawk War was the most destructive of Utah’s Indian wars.
The University of Deseret (changed to U. of Utah) was Utah’s first university.
America entered World War 2 with Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor.
The Pony Express could deliver mail from Missouri to California in 10 days.
Utah was named after the Ute Indians.
During the US Army’s approach to Utah in 1857 the Mormon militia (soldiers) used many tactics to delay their approach, but they did not shoot at them.
120 people died in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
A stock market crash triggered the Great Depression.
An example of a prehistoric weapon used in Utah is the atlatl.
The Jordan River connects Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake.
Utah has over 100 earthquakes each year.
The Anasazi were found in southern Utah.
The Fremont were found throughout most of Utah.
Utah’s highest mountain is called King’s Peak.
The transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit.
The Great Salt Lake is much saltier than the ocean.
The state constitution has prohibited polygamy.
77 countries participated in the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
John C. Fremont’s explorations will take him through Utah three different times.
All of Utah’s Indian tribes were involved in conflicts against settlers at some time.
Utah becomes a state in 1896.
No one officially died in the Utah War.
Know the shelters used by these tribes
Anasazi cliff house
Fremont pit house
Goshute wicki-up
Navajo Hogan
Paiute wicki-up
Shoshone tepee
Ute tepee
The Winter Olympics were held in 2002.
Utah is the 45th state.
Brigham Young lead the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois to Utah.
The automobile arrived here before the radio and airplane.
The Great Salt Lake is 4,200 feet above sea level.
Utah contributed in many ways during World War 1, but we did not manufacture tanks.
Utah has 12 national parks and national monuments.
In 1849 Brigham Young proposed the creation of the State of Deseret.
The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
The current governor is Gary Herbert.
Fillmore was the first territorial capital city.
World War 2 code talkers came from the Navajo.
During dinosaur times Utah was lower in elevation and it was wet and swampy.
Utah contributed in many ways during World War 2, but the atomic bomb was not detonated as a test here.
The Donner Party’s troubles began when trying to cross the Wasatch Mountains.
Salt Lake City is our current capital.
The chief executive of a state is the governor.
Mormon pioneers first enter the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
Lawrance Scanlan is the most important catholic leader in early Utah.
Utah’s largest lake is the Great Salt Lake.
Philo Farnsworth is famous for inventing the tv.
America, and Utah, were brought into World War 1 because of Germany’s submarine warfare.
Glacial runoff at the end of the last ice-age will form Lake Bonneville.
Utah has been contributing to the space program by constructing the shuttle rocket booster.
Utah Territory included land from present day Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada.
The Japanese-American’s who were moved to Topaz came from the San Francisco area.
The first artificial heart transplant took place in Utah.
The Scofield Mine disaster, one of America’s most famous, was a coal mine.
Topaz was created because of fear that Japanese-Americans would be loyal to Japan.
The many government programs created during the Great Depression are known as the New Deal.
Utah becomes a territory in 1850.
The Spanish-American War was the first war the USA was involved in after statehood.
Bear Lake is not a remnant of Lake Bonneville.
During the Great Depression Utah’s enemployment will reach it’s highest point at 36%.
Approximately 250-300 Shoshone were killed in the Bear River Massacre.
The first people to live in Utah are called Paleo-Indians.
The legislative branch is responsible for making laws.
Credit for discovering the Great Salt Lake goes to Jim Bridger or Etienne Provost.
Dominguez and Escalante were trying to find an overland route from New Mexico to California.
Approximately 92,000 Utahns were infected by the Spanish Flu epidemic at the close of World War 1.
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