Growth of Portland
Portland got its name, instead of Salem, over the flip of what kind of denomination?
What is a Penny (The Portland Penny)
This many rats were estimated to have died in the Great Seattle Fire
What is 1,000,000
What is 1882
This is the year that Washington became the 42nd State in America
1889
This is the only mammal that can fly (not glide)
What is a bat
What was, and still is, the number 1 industry in Oregon, and the backbone of its economy?
What is lumber/timber/forestry
This is the name of the location where Seattle was founded in September of 1851, one year later, they moved the settlement to Elliot Bay
What is Alki
This is a person who travels for personal gain with the intent to return home.
What is a sojourner
Good for consumers and bad for producers, this is the lowering of cost while the value of the dollar increases
What is deflation
This is the national animal of Scotland
What is a Unicorn
Married couples received this many acres with the Oregon Donation Land Act of 1850.
What is 640
The valuable material that was mined from the shores of lake Washington. It is estimated in the 1850s nearly 100 tons a day of it were being sent to California.
What is coal
This act renewed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1892
What is the Geary Act
Women's Suffrage is the right for women to do this
What is vote in an election
I am lighter than air, you can see me with the naked eye, and if you put me in something, I make it lighter
What is a hole
That outlining towns that provide big cities with raw goods is called this.
What are hinterlands
Following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, the city was raised this many feet to add in plumbing and help eliminate flooding
What is 15
Who stopped the attempted expulsion of the Chinese from Seattle in 1886?
What are anti-Chinese groups who wanted to follow the law
This is the Grand Coulee Dam "turned" on
What is March 22 1941
Snakes smell with this body part
What is their tongue
Portland lies on the confluence of these 2 rivers
The Willamette and the Columbia
The two gold rushes, one in 1887 (Canada) and 1900 (Alaska) helped to drive the economy of Seattle and make it the hub of the PNW
What are the Yukon and Klondike
This first Chinese-American Govenor was elected in Washington in 1996.
Who is Gary Locke
This is the name of the World War II project to build a Nuclear Bomb. Without the power from the Grand Coulee to produce the uranium at the Handford site, this project would not have been possible.
What is the Manhattan Project
What is a ton going forward but not going backwards
What is a ton