Vocabulary
Oregon Territory
Life in the West
Natural Resources
PIG WAR
100
To be close
What is proximity?
100
Today's Washington and Oregon were part of this Territory.
What was the Oregon Territory?
100
Beef, pork and venison
What was a major source of meat/food for the settlers?
100
The most abundant natural resource in the streams and rivers.
What were salmon?
100
These are the islands where the Pig War started.
What are the San Juans?
200
The bone-like, flexible "teeth" in some whales that filters their food from the sea
What is baleen?
200
The Americans, Spain, Great Britian and the Native Americans.
Who were the groups who wanted the Oregon Territory?
200
Cold, harsh winters were very hard on these animals.
What are cattle?
200
Washington never had much of these valuable minerals.
What were gold and silver?
200
This is the nationality of the pig who got out and sparked the conflict between Americans and British.
What is a British pig?
300
People who work out differences between countries
What are diplomats?
300
The reason so many people wanted to live in the Oregon Territory.
What is the mild climate, good farmland, and natural harbors.
300
Crop grown in abundance on the Palouse Hills
What is wheat?
300
The natural resource mined around Cle Elum.
What is coal?
300
The number of British troops that were called out and ready to fight in the Pig War.
What is 2000 soldiers?
400
The governmental body that makes laws
What is the legislature?
400
The 49th Parallel
What is the border between Washington and Canada?
400
Crop grown in abundance in the Wenatchee, Okanogan, and Yakima valleys
What are apples?
400
This city was rebuilt six times with Washington trees.
What is San Francisco?
400
The number of casualties--injured or dead--were in the Pig War.
What is one: the pig.
500
The year 1853
What was the year Washington split from Oregon?
500
The Treaty of 1846 did this. . .
What gave the United States possession of the Oregon Territory below the 49th parallel?
500
Two things settlers did for fun.
What were games, dances, music, skiing or horseback riding?
500
In the 1800s oil came from this animal we hunted almost to extinction.
What is the whale?
500
The name of the country who sent a diplomat to mediate the Pig War.
What is Germany?
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