Mt. Baker, Glacier Peak, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens are all examples of this type of landform.
What is a volcano?
100
The two main groups of Native Americans in Washington.
What are the Coastal tribes and the Plateau tribes?
100
As Washington was planning for statehood, many people wanted to name the state this, but the idea was rejected because it was feared that the state would be confused with the national capital.
What is Columbia?
100
The name of the trail most settlers used when traveling West.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
The man Seattle was named for.
Who is Chief Sealth?
200
The name of the geographic region Port Angeles and Aberdeen belong to.
What is the Coastal Range region?
200
The river Plateau Indians relied on for transportation and food.
What is the Columbia River?
200
In 1596, this Spanish sailor claimed to have explored the strait between the Washington mainland and Vancouver Island, making him the first known explorer of the Pacific Northwest coast.
Who is Juan de Fuca?
200
This was the main draw for settlers looking to travel West.
What is cheap land? (Adventure, starting new businesses, and avoiding questions of slavery will also work)
200
The first governor of Washington Territory, who was also the Secretary of Indian Affairs. He started many of the Indian reservations.
Who is Governor Isaac Stevens?
300
This volcano, although dormant, is the most dangerous one in Washington today.
What is Mt. Rainier?
300
The most important wood for Coastal Indian tribes.
What is red cedar?
300
This man owned the Pacific Fur Company, whose Fort Astoria was the first fort built on the Columbia River.
Who is John Jacob Astor?
300
Communication between settlers and their family and friends back East often took up to this long.
What is a year?
300
The short but vicious war that erupted between Native Americans and white settlers when gold was discovered along the upper Columbia River.
What is the Yakama War?
400
The name of the geographic region Seattle and Tacoma belong to.
What is the Puget Sound Lowlands region?
400
The animal whose introduction in the 1700s drastically changed the lives of Plateau Indians.
What is the horse?
400
The British man whose search for the Northwest Passage in 1776 resulted in the discovery of the lucrative sea otter fur trade.
Who is Captain Cook?
400
The famous Presbyterian missionaries who started a mission among the Cayuse Indians on the Walla Walla River, and were later killed.
Who are Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
400
This woman was the daughter of a Northern Paiute chief who spoke English, Spanish, and two Indian languages. She opened a school for children of the Bannock tribe and pleaded in Washington, DC for Indian affairs.
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?
500
The five geographic regions of Washington state.
What are the Coastal Range region, the Puget Sound Lowlands region, the Cascade Range region, the Rocky Mountain region, and the Columbia Plateau region?
500
The name of the ancient Paleo-Indian skeleton found in 1996 whose remains are some of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in North America.
What is the Kennewick Man?
500
This was the item most prized by early traders in Oregon and Washington Territory.
What is sea otter fur?
500
President James Polk compromised with this empire on the northern border of Oregon Territory, which became Washington state.
What is the British Empire?
500
The law that gave any white male citizen over the age of 18 320 acres of free land, as long as they claimed it and worked it for four years.