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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Wild West

What was the name of the trail that carried emigrants from Missouri to Oregon in the 1840s?

Answer

Oregon Trail

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Wild West

Who killed Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 1881?

Answer

Pat Garrett

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Wild West

Which Nevada mining discovery triggered the Comstock Lode boom in 1859?

Answer

Silver

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• The Wild West

What was Calamity Jane’s real name in the American Old West?

Answer

Martha Jane Canary

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• The Wild West

Which 1887 law divided many Native American reservations into individual allotments?

Answer

Dawes Act

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• The Wild West

What was the name of the 1866 cattle trail linking Texas ranches with railheads in Missouri?

Answer

Shawnee Trail

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• The Wild West

Which 1880s frontier settlement became the first incorporated town in Oklahoma Territory?

Answer

Guthrie

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• The Wild West

What was the name of the 1877 railroad strike that began in Martinsburg, West Virginia?

Answer

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

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• Nasa Space Missions

Which NASA mission was designed to find Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars?

Answer

Kepler

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• Nasa Space Missions

Which NASA mission became the first spacecraft to orbit two different extraterrestrial bodies?

Answer

Dawn

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• Nasa Space Missions

Which NASA mission was the last crewed mission to land on the Moon?

Answer

Apollo 17

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• Nasa Space Missions

Which NASA mission confirmed water ice near the Moon’s south pole by impacting the lunar surface in 2009?

Answer

LCROSS

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