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What is the name of the mythical water route through North America?
The Northwest Passage.
Who was the woman that helped Lewis and Clark on their journey west?
Sacajawea.
What disease did a lot of people die of on the Oregon trail?
Dysentery.
What was the Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
Which three European countries were competing for the Northwest Passage?
Britain, Russia, and Spain.
What 1855 treaty forced Plateau Indigenous people onto reservations?
The Walla Walla Treaty.
What was the main company engaged in the fur trade?
The Hudson's Bay Company
What 1854 Treaty moved Coastal Indigenous peoples onto reservations?
The Medicine Creek Treaty.
Who were the Whitmans?
Missionaries trying to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Why did early settlers want to change the land of the PNW?
To make it look like land on the east coast they were familiar with.
What tribe did Chief Kamiakin fight for the rights of?
The Yakama.
Name three items Indigenous peoples wanted in exchange for furs.
Metal tools, weapons, cloths, and beads.
What did Indigenous people use fires for?
To clear brush and make it easier to hunt and gather food.
Why was the Lewis and Clark journey the "beginning of the end" for Indigenous peoples?
Because it opened the west to outside settlers and introduced diseases.
Who were the Metis?
People with mixed Indigenous and European ancestry.
Why were the Cayuse suspicious of the Whitmans?
They believed them responsible for the Measles outbreak.
Name three animals/plants that early settlers brought to the region.
Cattle, horses, wheat, and potatoes
What 1974 decision protected Treaty rights for fishing?
The Boldt Decision.
What was the impact of President Jackson's Indian Removal Act of the 1830s on Indigenous peoples?
Many tribes were forced to give up their lands and relocate.
What animals were primarily hunted for their fur?
Sea otters and beavers.