Vocab 1
In 1830 President Andrew Jackson signs this bill that forcibly removes five Native Nations from their homelands in Southeastern U.S.
What is the American Indian Removal Act?
In the 1840s non-Native people begin to be enticed by ‘free’ and/or cheap land and begin a journey across the Western US in hopes of making it to the Oregon Country.
What is the Oregon Trail?
From 1849-1855 300,000 people moved to California in hopes of becoming rich. During the time the “California Genocide” occurred.
What is the California Gold Rush?
A believed to be route through the Americas that would quicken a sailing expedition from Europe to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
A document from the Catholic Church that declares any land uninhabited by Christians could be “discovered” by Christians
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
A vertical line drawn on the globe by the Pope in 1793 that divides the world for Spanish and Portuguese colonization.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French and doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A British fur trading company that originally began near Hudson Bay but eventually expanded all the way to the Spokane region of Cascadia.
What is the Northwest Fur Company?
From 1804-1806 these land explorers traveled from St. Louis to Fort Clatsop. They met with Native Nations and documented the plants and animals along the journey.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
The British and Americans go to war. As a result, the Americans flee Fort Astoria and discover South Pass that is later used during the Oregon Trail.
What is the War of 1812?
A Spanish explorer who in 1592 sailed into what is now called the Strait of Juan de Fuca. He believed that he found the NW Passage.
What is Juan de Fuca?
A Russian explorer who in 1728 led an expedition from Russia to present day Alaska and parts of Cascadia.
What is Vitus Bering?
A British explorer who surveyed the NW coast in 1778. He documented the wealth of the PNW and the unlikely existence of the NW Passage.
What is James Cook?
An American explorer who from 1791-1792 becomes the first non-Native explorer to sail up the Columbia River.
What is Robert Gray?
A British explorer who in 1792 sailed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into present day Puget Sound.
What is George Vancouver?
1851-1853 these two groups of non-Native people begin to build what is to become Seattle.
What is Arthur Denny and Henry Yesler?
First governor of the WA territory, who forces Native Nations across WA to sign treaties.
What is Isaac Stevens?
In 1852 miners travel to NE WA in hopes of becoming rich. As they travel they abuse Native people and trigger the Yakama Indian Wars.
What is the Colville Gold Rush?
In 1853, this territory is established out of the northern section of the Oregon Territory.
What is the Washington Territory?
Founded the American Pacific Fur Company and the trading post of Fort Astoria.
What is John Jacob Astor?
Defined the line between the U.S. and Britian (Canada) as the 49th parallel.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
Gave veterans of American wars 80-160 acres of ‘free’ land.
What is the Bounty Land Act?
Would often send entire families to build small town and then encourage Native people to visit and practice Christianity in these towns.
What is Protestant Missionaries?
Every male citizen over the age of 18 was granted 320 acres of land in the Oregon Territory.
What is the Donation Land Act?
Would send one priest to live with Native people. They would slowly convert Native people to Christianity by allowing them to continue to practice their own religion while blending in Christian beliefs.
What is Catholic Missionaries?