This industry was furthered by the need for a railroad.
What is lumber/wood?
100
The animals of choice to pull wagons on the Oregon Trail.
What is oxen?
100
The belief that it was the divine mission of Americans to spread their political and religious values to others.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The Oklahoma football team named after early homesteaders.
What is the Oklahoma Sooners?
200
This whale was almost hunted to extinction to use one of its "body parts" for making carriage springs, corsets, fishing rods, skirt hoops, umbrellas and horse whips.
What is baleen?
200
The Oregon Territory cities most pioneers settled near.
What is Fort Vancouver or Oregon City?
200
The parallel at which the Oregon territory was divided by the U.S. and Britain.
What is the 49th parallel?
200
The industry that benefitted from canneries started by Robert Hume.
What is the fishing industry?
300
The fossil fuel found in the Puget Sound Lowlands and the Cascade Mountains used for heating homes and providing power to factories that brought many people to the Kittitas County area.
What is coal?
300
The company that led American settlers south of the Columbia River, so that they would not settle near good land.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
300
The following territory was created in 1853 because Oregon was too big and government leaders were too far away to lead effectively.
What is the Washington Territory?
300
People settled in these "areas" instead of the country side, so that they could sell goods and offer services to settlers on farms.
What is cities/towns?
400
The city in California that was rebuilt 6 times due to fires.
What is San Francisco, CA?
400
The government act that led to the majority of migration to the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
A future U.S. President who was almost the first governor of the Oregon Territory.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The resource that replaced whale oil in 1859.
What is petroleum oil?
500
One of the effects of losing soil due to the cutting down of trees for lumber.
What is erosion/land slides?
500
Identify the five industries in which settlers were able to make a living.
What is fishing, whaling, agriculture, mining, and lumber.
500
The United States President at the time of the creation of Oregon Territory.
What is President James Polk?
500
This project made it possible for farmers to grow apples and other crops in the Yakima, Wenatchee, and Okanogan valleys.