Vocabulary
This is an area of land set aside for the use of different Native tribes. In the early 1800s, these were made through treaties between the U.S. and those Native tribes.
What is a reservation?
This is one of the methods Americans expected Natives to learn despite their traditions. This was meant to take up less land.
What is European farming techniques?
This is the minimum population necessary to be considered an organized territory.
What is 5,000 people?
This act followed the Homestead Act. It allowed agricultural and mechanical colleges (A&M's) to be established in the country, leading to the number of farms to double from 1865-1900.
What is the Morrill Act?
These are the agricultural industries of Washington. (3 answers)
What is apples, ranching and dairying, and wheat?
This is a phrase to describe a foreign, independent nation. In the early 1800s, the U.S. made treaties with the Native tribes, treating them like these.
What is a sovereign nation?
This is the process where a minority group assumes the behavior, values, rituals, and beliefs of a majority group. This was seen as the main goal of the U.S. while removing and relocating Native tribes.
What is cultural assimilation?
This is the minimum population necessary to be considered for an enabling act and statehood.
What is 60,000 people?
These two acts were passed as a way for Congress to incentivize people to move west. One act was found in the vocabulary section, and the second act allowed farmers to claim homesteads.
What are the Donation Land Act and the Homestead Act?
This city in the PNW was the original home of the Northern Pacific Railroad before Seattle took it. They had the largest sawmill in the world in 1886.
What is Tacoma?
This is area of up to 160 acres used for farming. Farmers could claim these through the Homestead Act of 1862.
What is a homestead?
This is the main tactic used by the U.S. to forcefully assimilate Native people. They used this method because it was easier to assimilate children than adults.
What is Native school / Native boarding school?
This is the name of the treaty between the U.S. and England that settled the U.S. - Canada border and established the Oregon Territory.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This act, passed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, authorized the construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
The two things are credited as being the main reasons for Seattle's growth. One allowed them to be a port city and the second was a name for the sheer will power to make the city great the people there showed. (2 answers)
What is the proximity to the Puget Sound and the "booster spirit"?
This is an act, passed in 1850, that granted land to settlers in the Oregon Territory. This act allowed them to officially claim "unclaimed" land in the area for improvements like businesses or farms.
What is the Donation Land Act?
This act in 1830 took a more aggressive approach to gaining land for the U.S. It forcefully removed five Native tribes and placed them in reservations. The walk to the reservations was called the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This treaty was signed on January 26, 1855, in the Kitsap Peninsula. It was signed by the Washington Territory governor, Issac Stevens and three Native tribes.
What is the Treaty of Point No Point?
This was the state chosen in the 1800s to be set aside entirely for Native American use. However, after American settlers demanded to be allowed to settle here, Congress passed the Dawes Severality Act in 1887 to force Natives into even smaller reservations to make space for American settlers.
What is Oklahoma?
This city was incredibly wealthy due to its proximity to Idaho's Coeur d'Alene silver mines. It was also located near a waterfall, allowing them to power their sawmill and other electrical infrastructure.
What is Spokane?
This is a railroad company that was established after the Pacific Railroad Act was passed. This company started construction in Omaha, Nebraska to the meeting point in Utah.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad / Union Pacific Railroad Company?
These are the flaws of Native boarding schools. (3 answers)
What is many children died of disease, students were treated harshly leading to many running away and basing school on cultural superiority with the goal of "civilizing" the children?
This is one way the U.S. forced the Natives to be dependent on the U.S. government in the Treaty of Point No Point.
What is only trading with Americans, no more trading with Canada or its Native people.
These are the terms of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.
What is making individual Natives own 160 acres of land in Oklahoma rather than whole tribes?
This animal was the symbol of the PNW fishing industry. They were originally gathered as a basic food source for the local Native tribes before settlers began selling them canned, fresh, or dried. Unfortunately, due to things like overfishing and pollution, this animal is endangered.
What is salmon?
This law, created in 1787, created the first rules for states to enter the union, allowing Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin into the union. It would be used as the model for Congress to continue making laws for states to enter the union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These were the two main disagreements Native tribes and British colonists had, leading to a very difficult relationship. One jeopardized Europeans exclusive access to all agriculture, as some Natives farmed and some still hunted and gathered. The second was a practice exclusive to the Europeans, as Natives believed in using different parts at different times and only when necessary. (2 answers)
What is resource gathering and private land ownership?
These are three ways America took away Natives traditions in the Treaty of Point No Point. One took away their traditional education, one took away their traditional medicine, and one took away their traditional farming. (3 answers)
What is setting up American schools, operating American style clinics on reservations, and teaching European style farming / trades in schools?
These two numbers reflect the population west of the Mississippi in 1870, vs. the population west of the Mississippi in 1890.
What is 7 million vs. 17 million?
These Washington cities, while lacking in gold and silver mines, were still able to profit from the rushes by housing merchants to sell food, tents, tools, and clothing to miners traveling to Alaska, Canada, and Idaho. (3 answers)
What is Walla Walla, Spokane, and Seattle?