Rivers
The largest river in Washington State.
What is the Columbia?
The longest mountain range in Washington State.
What is the Cascade Range?
The year Washington achieved statehood.
What is 1889?
One group of people who created conflict in the 1800's when they encountered the Native Americans.
Who are the missionaries? Or the settlers? Or the territorial government?
What was the name of the contracts between Native Americans and the territorial government?
What are treaties?
The direction the Columbia River flows.
What is north to south?
One of the forces which shaped Washington's landscape.
What is glaciers? Or lava flows? Or floods?
The Wellington train avalanche on Stevens Pass disaster date.
What is 1910?
The name of our state capitol.
What is Olympia?
The name of the document which defines our rights in Washington State, all other states, and the country.
What is the constitution?
The main source of food for both explorers and Native Americans from the Columbia River?
What is salmon?
A ubiquitous rock found locally.
What is granite?
A war that started in the 1800's after the Whitman Massacre.
What is the Cayuse War?
The name of our area before it was Washington State or Washington territory.
What is Oregon Territory?
The document which shows changes made to a contract.
What are amendments?
The state the Columbia River also borders.
What is Oregon?
What is plate tectonics?
One of two early economic activities which were influential in building Washington State.
What is fur trading? Or what is logging/timber industry? or what is the railroad industry?
One reason the Native American population of Washington Territory/State decreased between 1700-1800?
What is disease (like small pox)? Or conflict like war? Or effects of treaties?
The number of times our national congress voted on Washington's proposed constitution before it was passed.
What are three times.
The reason the Native Americans lived away from the Columbia River.
What are reservations? What are treaties?
The name of one ice age flood which carved much of Eastern Washington's landscape.
The Missoula Flood
One of the modern economic activities which helped develop Washington State.
What is the airplane industry (Boeing)? or What is the software/computing industry (Microsoft)? or What is the coffee industry (Starbucks)?
One reason the Native American population of Washington Territory/State decreased between 1700-1800?
What is war? Or conflict?
One of the three items to obtain statehood for Washington.
What is uphold the U.S. constitution? Or what is a 60,000 population? Or what is free education for all children?