The North West Mounted Police The West The Gold Rush Wildcard
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What is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
The North West Mounted Police changed their name in 1920 to this name.
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What is "The Last Best West"?
This was the slogan used in immigration advertisement campaigns.
100
Who are prospectors?
This is the name of the people who went in search for gold.
100
What is sluicing?
The process of removing dirt and sludge while searching for gold.
200
Who are women?
This group was able to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1975.
200
What is marquis wheat?
This strain of wheat was invented in 1904.
200
What is one year?
Prospectors needed their food supplies to last for this amount of time.
200
What is 1991?
The first First Nations RCMP troop was created in this year.
300
What is whiskey?
The North West Mounted Police needed to control this illegal trade item.
300
What is scrip?
The Metis were given this coupon that could be exchanged for money or land.
300
What is Dawson city?
This is a town that developed in the gold rush and became the captial of the Yukon Territory.
300
What are high taxes and religious persecution?
People moved to the west to escape from these two things.
400
What is the turban?
In 1990 police men were able to wear this instead of the stetson.
400
Who is Clifford Sifton?
This person was the Minister of the Interior from 1865 to 1905.
400
What is the Chilkoot Pass?
Prospectors used this pass to reach the Klondike.
400
What is protecting the Canadian border?
It is for this reason that the Canadian government wanted to populate the west.
500
Who are the Blackfoot?
The North West Mounted Police promised this First Nations group that they would treat them equally before the law.
500
What is the homestead system?
In this land ownership system, settlers paid $10 for a plot of land and needed to develop it within 3 years.
500
What is cyanide?
This poisonous chemical was used to mine gold during the gold rush.
500
Who is Robert Service?
This is a famous Canadian poet who wrote about the Gold Rush.






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