This trapper and fur trader who worked for the HBC and advised the Lees to settle in the Willamette Valley.
Who was John McLoughlin?
100
This Presbyterian missionary couple attempted to convert the Nez Perce Indians near Walla Walla, but with disastrous results.
Who were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
100
This is a person such as George Washington Bush who fought in a war.
What is a veteran?
100
These meetings were the earliest form of local government in the region when settlers decided how to handle the predators that were killing cattle and sheep.
What are Wolf Meetings?
100
This was one effect of the Westward Expansion on Native Americans.
What is the depletion of natural resources?
What is bartering?
What is the takeover of land?
200
This person was a priest for the HBC who baptized many of the Couer d'Alene tribe Christians and allowed the Native Americans to mix their own religious customs with that of their new religion.
Who was Father Francis Blanchet?
200
This Catholic nun built hospitals, Indian schools, academies, and orphanages.
Who is Mother Joseph?
200
This is the money paid for killing the wolves and other wild animals that were killing the settlers' livestock.
What is a bounty?
200
The result of this convention was that Great Britain and the United States agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon Country.
What was the Convention of 1818?
200
This was one cause of the Whitman Massacre.
What is smallpox and other diseases?
What is Narcissa's poor treatment of the Native Americans?
300
This was the war veteran who traveled to Washington Territory and provided settlers with food for their first winter and seed for their first sowing.
Who was George Washington Bush?
300
These two women were the first white women to travel across the entire continent.
Who were Eliza Spalding or Narcissa Whitman?
300
This word applied to people who liked that the Oregon Country had no slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
300
This treaty in 1819 resulted in Spain giving its claims to the Oregon Country to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
This was the standoff betwen Britain and the US over who owned the San Juan Islands.
What is the Pig War?
400
This president's slogan was "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight," a campaign slogan that won him the election based on his promise of where the northernmost American border should be.
Who was James Polk?
400
This was the methodist minister who traveled with his nephew and tried unsuccessfully to convert Native Americans in the Willamette Valley
Who is Jason Lee?
400
This word means resistance to a disease; for example, the Native Americans did NOT have this against smallpox.
What is immunity?
400
This treaty of 1846 created an international boundary at the 49th parallel between United States and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
400
Settlers in the Willamette Valley organized a temporary government and requested this in 1843.
What is the Oregon Territory?
500
These children were orphaned twice, once when their parents died on the Oregon Trail and once when their caretakers were killed in a Native American massacre.
Who were the Sager children?
500
This was the first governor of the Washington Territory.
Who was Isaac Stevens?
500
This is a person who creates and runs a business, such as settlers, traders, and gold seekers did who used the Mullan Road as a trade route.
What is an entrepreneur?
500
This was created in 1853 and was originally called Columbia.
What is the Washington Territory?
500
This law was passed in 1850 to allow each white male over the age of 18 to claim 320 acres of free land.