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Goldrush
100
A term to describe a railroad that connects the East coast with the West Coast.
What is transcontinental?
100
A term that describes immigrants from other countries being treated unfairly.
What is discrimination?
100

The term given to Americans who were anti-immigrant 

What is nativist?

100
This term describes an area that has all the elements of a large city.
What is urban?
100
The region in Alaska in which the gold rush was took place.
What is the Klondike?
200
The Washington governor who explored a rail line connecting the Great Lakes to the Puget Sound.
Who is Isaac Stevens?
200
The group of immigrants who came to the Northwest to escape a potato famine in their country.
Who are the Irish?
200

One of the main reasons people of the Pacific Northwest didn't welcome immigrants into the region.

What is job competition?

200

These WA cities were chosen for railroad terminals in the 1880s which caused them to grow

What are Tacoma and Seattle?

200
The city that was considered the Gateway to the Gold Rush.
What is Seattle?
300

2 things that increased as a result of the Northern Pacific Railroad coming to Washington.

What are the economy and population of Washington?

300
This group of people came to the Northwest and worked in the mining camps to escape war, flood, and famine in their native country.
Who are the Chinese?
300
The main group of immigrants targeted by the resident people of the Northwest, sometimes resulting in violence.
Who were the Chinese?
300
This WA city opened a train terminal in 1906 called Union Depot.
What is Seattle?
300
The name given to the crazed gold seekers.
What is stampeders?
400

Name the two main railroads that came through WA

Great Northern and Northern Pacific

400
The group of people attracted to the Northwest because its climate reminded them of their own home climate.
Who are the Scandinavians?
400
This law prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the country.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This WA city was built next to a river and used the water power to run a sawmill and flour mill.
What is Spokane?
400
The approximate percentage of people who actually left for the gold rush that made it there.
What is less than half?
500

The year the 1st transcontinental railroad was completed.

What is 1869?

500
The name given to Hawaiian men who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Who are the Kanakas?
500

a limited or fixed number of people: for example when a certain number of Ireland came, immigration from Ireland would be closed. 

What is a quota?

500
This term describes an area that has the qualities of the countryside.
What is rural?
500
The famous Seattle businessman who invested some of his earnings from the gold rush into a shoe store.
Who is John Nordstrom?