Westward !
Where to Live?
Working for a Living
A State of Mind
Potpourri
100
Good farm land, no slavery, new adventures.
What are reasons pioneers went west on the Oregon Trail?
100
The first name for what later became the city of Olympia.
What is Smithfield?
100
Little or no medical help for diseases,bad weather,and clearing forests for land.
What are hardships that pioneers faced?
100
Islands that almost caused a war between Britian and the U.S.
What are the San Juan Islands
100
It is different from a state because settlers could not elect their officials.
What is a territory?
200
Most early settlers lived in this area of the Oregon Country.
What is south of the Columbia River?
200
So people could sell goods and services to settlers.
What is the reason towns and cities were created in the Northwest?
200
Fires in San Francisco gave a huge boost to this industry.
What is the lumber industry?
200
Settlers wanted a government that was close to them.
What is the reason Washington Territory was created?
200
The two measurements used for marking homesteads and townships.
What are longitude and latitude?
300
Elijah White created it and Marcus Whitman used it to travel to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
Natural Harbors,Rivers,Trees,Ships,Railroads,and BUildings.
What are some natural resources and human elements that contirbuted to the growth of Puget Sound?
300
Lumber, Whaling, and Mining.
What are some of the industries that pioneers created in the Pacific Northwest?
300
The first governor of the Washington Territory.
Who is Issac Stevens?
300
The town of Bush Prairie is named after this pioneer.
Who is George Washington Bush?
400
This natural feature made it easier to cross the Rocky Mountains.
What is South Pass?
400
Someone named after the Homestead Act.
What is a homesteader?
400
Without this it would have been hard to grow crops in the arid parts of Eastern Washington.
What is irrigation?
400
When Britian gave up its claim to the Oregon Territory.
What is The 1846 Treaty of Oregon?
400
It was started over the shooting of a farm animal.
What is the Pig War?
500
The animal of choice to pull wagons.
What is an oxen?
500
Mark the land,register,and advertize in a newspaper.
What is what a settler had to do to establish aland claim?
500
This grain made up 45% of all Washington crops.
What is wheat?
500
Disputes over land were settled by this.
What are treaties?
500
The belief that America's religious and politcal values should be spred across the continent.
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
M
e
n
u