People
He promised to bring young, eligible women to the NW for the men to marry.
Who was Asa Mercer?
This replaced the Oregon Trail as a way for people to travel to the NW.
What was the railroad?
He was one of the most successful and colorful Circuit Riders.
Who was Joab Powell?
A huge floating net designed to trap large schools of fish.
What is a gilnet?
Logging was often called more deadly than this.
What was war?
Founder of Spokanne
Who was James Glover?
What is Portland?
They rode thousands of miles each year to preach the gospel.
Who were Circuit Riders?
The most valuable fish in Washington
What are salmon?
These machines pulled logs through the forest by rapidly winding wire around a large spool.
What are Donkey Engines?
He led a small party of settlers to current day “Seattle”.
Who was Arthur Denny?
This is the oldest public university in the Northwest.
What is the University of Washington?
They stirred up bad feelings toward the Chinese in the NW.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
By the early 1900, Washington became the largest producer of this fruit.
What are apples?
They guided the team of oxen that would pull the logs out of the woods.
Who are bullwhackers?
He made his claim near Commencement Bay
Who was Job Carr?
Members of this colony rejected Christianity and mocked the Christian church.
What is Home Colony?
Miners thought this was the best city to stop at on the way to Alaska.
What is Seattle?
This made it so the Columbia Plateau could be productive farmland.
What was irrigation systems?
He owned 900,000 acres of timeberland in Oregon and Washington
Who was Frederick Weyerhaeser?
Seattle was named after him.
Who was Chief Sealth?
This colony was founded with a vision of converting Washington state and the whole nation to socialism.
What is the Equality Colony?
Billionaire philanthropist who gave millions of dollars to build libraries throughout the nation.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
These wooden machines were built on stilts over a river and were a great method to catch fish.
What are fish wheels?
Stumpland was replanted with trees and managed like a farm.
What is sustained yield logging?