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Colorado History

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What administrative problem did the creation of Colorado Territory address?

  • All counties belonged to one city
  • Denver was outside North America
  • Colorado had no land
  • The future state area had been divided among several territorial jurisdictions
Correct answer(s):
  • The future state area had been divided among several territorial jurisdictions

What is the most accurate way to frame Indigenous history in Colorado?

  • As unrelated to present-day Colorado
  • As both historical and contemporary, with continuing tribal nations and communities
  • As only archaeology
  • As ending before statehood
Correct answer(s):
  • As both historical and contemporary, with continuing tribal nations and communities

What does southern Colorado’s Spanish and Mexican legacy show?

  • Spanish influence arrived after 1950
  • Colorado had no communities before 1861
  • The region had established cultural histories before U.S. territorial government
  • All culture began with railroads
Correct answer(s):
  • The region had established cultural histories before U.S. territorial government

Why were nineteenth-century railroads important for market integration in Colorado?

  • They stopped migration
  • They lowered freight costs and connected regional producers to national markets
  • They isolated Denver
  • They raised travel times everywhere
Correct answer(s):
  • They lowered freight costs and connected regional producers to national markets

Why should the Colorado Gold Rush be studied as more than an economic event?

  • It changed only gold prices
  • It occurred without migration
  • It had no political effect
  • It also transformed settlement and intensified Indigenous dispossession
Correct answer(s):
  • It also transformed settlement and intensified Indigenous dispossession