Utah History Study Guide  

1. Utah’s  first  inhabitants:  Indians     2. The  tribe  that  Utah  is  named  after:  Ute     3. The  Spanish  Priests  that  were  trying  to  find  a  way  from  Santa  Fe,  NM  to  Monterey,  CA:   Escalante  &  Dominguez       4. The  reason  Dominguez  and  Escalante  had  to  turn  around  and  give  up  on  their  mission:   Winter  came  and  they  wouldn’t  get  to  their  destination  fast  enough     5. The  first  white  man  to  see  the  Great  Salt  Lake:  Jim  Bridger     6. The  animal  that  Mountain  Men  loved  to  hunt:  Beaver     7. The  city  of  Ogden  was  named  after  him:  Peter  Skene  Ogden     8. A  hole  with  a  collection  of  hidden  skins:  cache     9. The  “real”  name  of  the  Mormon  church:  The  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-­‐Day  Saints     10. The  reason  that  Mormons  left  Illinois:  They  were  being  persecuted       11. The  leader  of  the  Mormon  church  that  told  the  pioneers  to  settle  in  Utah:  Brigham   Young     12. Some  of  the  trials  that  the  pioneers  experienced  on  the  trail:  Death,  hunger,  sickness,   fatigue,  Indians       13. The  date  the  pioneers  entered  the  Salt  Lake  Valley:  July  24th,  1847     14. Utah’s  state  bird:  California  Seagull     Reason:  Seagulls  ate  an  abundance  of  crickets  that  were  destroying  the  pioneers’   crops  that  first  year  they  were  in  the  valley.     15. Utah  state  bird:  Sego  Lily     16. Where  the  Golden  Spike  Ceremony  took  place:  Promontory,  Utah   The  date  the  transcontinental  railroad  was  completed:  May  10th,  1869     17. The  name  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  who  made  Utah  a  state:  Grover   Cleveland       18. The  date  that  Utah  was  made  a  state:  January  4th,  1896  

  19. The  two  things  that  brought  people  to  Utah:  Mining  and  Religious  Freedom     20. The  top  2  industries  in  Utah  in  the  early  1900s:  Mining  and  Farming       21. The  three  branches  of  government:  Executive,  Judicial,  Legislative       22. The  group  of  people  who  make  the  laws:  Congress     23. The  title  of  the  man  who  is  “president”  of  Utah:  Governor  (Gary  Herbert)     24. The  Supreme  Court  justices  are  also  known  as:  Judges       25. What  is  the  capitol  of  Utah:  Salt  Lake  City