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How many species of game fish have hunting seasons?
15 inches
What is the annual precipitation?
34.70 inches
How much precipitation does Heron recieve?
105 inches
How much precipitation does the Grinnell Glacier recieve?
7
How many tax brackets does Montana have?
6.9 percent
What is the highest tax bracket in Montana?
no
Does Montana have a sales tax?
Approximately 66,000
About how many Native Americans live in Montana?
1851
When was the Indian Appropriations Act passed?
1887
What year was the Dawes act passed?
Great Falls
Where are the Little Shell Chippewa headquartered?
63%
About what percentage of the Native Americans in Montana live off the reservation?
German
What is the largest European-American race in Montana?
a mining camp
What was Helena originally founded as?
6.5 percent
What percentage of the population in Montana are Native peoples?
Big Horn, Glacier, and Roosevelt
What three counties are Native Americans a majority?
1980 and 1990
Between what years did the Native population increase by 27.9%
2007
In what year did many cities in Montana set heat records?
July
What month was the hottest ever recorded?
forest fires
What problem has substantially increased in its severity?
1855
What year was the Hellgate treaty formed?
Isaac Stevens
Who negotiated the Hellgate treaty?
1859
What year was the treaty ratified?
Flathead Indian Reservation
What did the treaty establish?
Camp Cooke
What was the name of the first US Army post?
on the Missouri River
Where was Camp Cooke situated?
1876
What year was the Great Sioux War?
1877
What year did the Battle of Bear Paw happen?
English
What is the official language of Montana?
94.8 percent
What percentage of the population in Montana speak English?
Spanish
What is the second most common language spoken in Montana?
13,040
How about many Spanish speakers are there in the state?
about 1,700
ABout how many people in the state of Montana speak Cheyenne?
89.4 percent
What percent of the state is White?
6.3 percent
What percent of the state is Native American Indian?
2.9
Hispanics account for what percentage of Monatanas population?
1,032,949
What was the population of the state in 2015?
4.40%
How much did the population increase since 2010?
Gallatin County
What county saw the largest growth?
Kalispell
What city saw the largest growth?
1917
What year was Jeannette Rankin vote against war the first time?
1941
When did she vote a second time against war?
smokejumpers and for other forest fire-fighting duties.
What were conscientious objectors sent to Montana to do?
over 13 million
About how many bison were in Montana in 1870?
about 325
In 1884 about how many bison remained?
General Philip Sheridan
Who pleaded to Congress for slaughtering bison?
1875
What year did General Sheridan approach Congress about killing bison?
1881
When did the Northern Pacific Railroad reach Montana from the west?
1882
When did the Northern Pacific Railroad reach Montana from the east?
1871, 1872 and 1873
What years were the railroad challenged by Chief Sitting Bull?
1876
What year was the Great White Sioux War?
1883
When was the transcontinental National Pacific Railroad finished?
1866
When was the first constitutional convention held in Montana?
bid for statehood
Why was this constitutional convention held?
1884
When was the second constitutional convention held?
1889
What year was Montana's statehood approved?
North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington
What other three states were approved in the same year?
1862
What year did the Homestead Act provide land to settlers?
160 acres
How much land did the Homestead Act allow?
1868
What year was the first homestead claim claimed?
1877
When was the Desert Land Act passed?
640 acres
How much land did the Desert Land Act allot?
$.25
How much was the charge per acre at first?
James J. Hill
Who promoted settlement in Montana in the early 1900s
1902
In what year was the Reclamation Act passed?
1909
What year was the Enlarged Homestead Act passed?
320 acres
How much land was alloted in the new Enlarged Homestead Act?
1917
When did Congress pass the Espionage Act?
1918
When was the Sedition Act passed?
criminalized criticism of the U.S. government, military, or symbols through speech or other means
What were these acts make do to laws?
200
How many people were arrested from the Montana Act?
78
How many of the 200 arrested in the Montana Act were convicted?
40,000-plus
How many Montanans entered the miltary in the first year of the war?
over 57,000
How many Montanans joined the military in the war total?
At least 1500
About how many Montanans died in the war?
First Special Service Force or "Devil's Brigade,"
Who trained at the military grounds in Montana?
Great Falls, Lewistown, Cut Bank and Glasgow
Where were air bases built in Montana?
entire human groups
In the judgement, it is stated that the aim of the Genocide Convention, at its most simplest, is preventing the destruction of which victims?
that group
In addressing the issue of "in part," the Appeals Chamber found that the part must be a substantial part of what?
"in whole or in part"
Which phrase is especially contentious within international humanitarian law?
Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic
What 2001 case was declared genocide by the International Criminal Tribune for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)?
opinions of respected commentators
Who contributed to guiding the Appeals chamber in its conclusion?
that biological-physical destruction was necessary
Two bodies of the United Nations agreed with what restricted provision in defining genocide?
the type of group destruction
A definition of what, by the States, was necessary to preserve and expand genocidal law?
Germany
Which country's courts were noted by the ECHR for taking a wider stance on provisions of genocide laws?
Convention States municipal laws
The ECHR found most states to have largely undefined definitions of group destruction, despite what factor?
the judgements of several international and municipal courts
In its preparations, what was the source of other considerations by the ECHR?
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
In 1948, what general assembly resolution established genocide as a prosecutable act?
Nazi Germany
In which war-era country was the Holocaust immortalized?
Lemkin
Following World War II, whose bid was successful in establishing the worldwide acceptance and the nascent legal definition of genocide?
United Nations General Assembly
Which group convened officially for the first time in 1946?
provide a legal definition of the crime
While recognizing genocide, what did the UN General Assembly fail to do in its resolution?
political killings
Which provision was initially included in the first write-up of the Convention and then removed?
USSR
What is one of the countries that objected to the inclusion of political killings in the early version of the Convention?
international intervention in domestic politics
What was the primary concern of other nations who objected to including political groups in the definition of genocide?
William Schabas
Which distinguished academic of genocide highlighted several other countries opposed to including political genocide in the Convention?
its own Great Purge
What atrocity motivated a self-serving USSR to object to the provision of political killings drafted into the Convention?
majority of legal scholars
Which group was accused by the ECHR of having an overly constricted idea of the meaning of destruction in defining genocide?
national, racial, religious or ethnic
What groups did the ECHR feel should be included as potential victims of genocide?
Jorgic v. Germany
In 2007 what former case did the European Court of Human Rights draw on to further refine qualifiers of genocide?