CO - THE HIGHEST STATE - CH. 10 - 12

 Coal miners had difficult lives working for coal companies because they were outsiders, foreign immigrants, spoke a different language, worshiped with different religions, were discriminated against, and had little political power.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 “Ice farming” was going up in the mountains and riding down the slopes on skis.

• a.  True

• b.  False

Cattleman and sheepherders got along well and were friendly to each other throughout Colorado.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 Farmers formed colonies in order to cooperate, combine skills, and overcome loneliness.

• a.  True

• b.  False

First to claim water use on land had first use rights to the water.  This is the doctrine of prior appropriation.

• a.  True

• b.  False

The National Western Stock Show  is held for 10 days in January every year.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 Narrow gauge engines and railroads were better suited for the steep grades of mountains and canyons of western Colorado.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 Water use and sharing between the eastern and western slopes of Colorado became our state’s most important question of the 20th Century.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 Ouray’s leadership kept the peace between Utes and miners in western Colorado.  His death before the treaty of 1880 added to the loss of much Ute land on the western slope.

• a.  True

• b.  False

 Mother Jones came to Colorado in 1913 to protest the Matewan Massacre.

• a.   True

• b.   False