Explorers & Expeditions
Which THREE European nations first explored the Washington coast?
What are Russia, Spain, and Britain?
What was Russia's main economic interest in the PNW and Alaska?
What is trading fur?
What is a missionary?
What is a person sent to an area to spread their religion?
What is a treaty?
What is a formal agreement between governments or groups?
An area set up by a trading company, where settlers live and work.
What is an outpost?
What was the formal name for the group of people on the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
What is the Corps of Discovery?
What animal's fur was especially valuable in the Pacific Northwest trade?
What is beaver?
Why did missionaries travel to the Pacific Northwest?
What is to convert indigenous people to Christianity?
The Joint Occupation Treaty of 1818 allowed citizens of these two nations to settle in the PNW.
What are Britain and the United States?
A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
What is a settler?
Which Russian explored Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and has a strait named after him?
Who is Vitus Bering?
Which company dominated the fur trade in the Northwest?
What is the Hudson Bay Company?
What is the route that settlers used to move west to Oregon and Washington best known as?
What is the Oregon Trail?
When was the Oregon Territory established?
What is 1848?
An original record from the time something happened
What is a primary source?
If you drive on the Juan De Fuca Highway, you are driving on a road named after an explorer who sailed for this country:
What is Spain?
What was ONE negative impact of the fur trade on indigenous communities?
What is brought disease and conflict?
What was ONE item or influence that was a brought by the Hudson's Bay Company that was a detriment to the Nisqually people?
Possible answers include: disease, guns, etc.
What rights did the Nisqually people maintain in the Medicine Creek Treaty?
What are the rights to fish and hunt on their native lands?
A document that explains or interprets past events using other sources, written later.
What is a secondary source?
Who is James Cook?
What are the names of the Hudson Bay Company's TWO biggest forts?
What are Fort Vancouver and Fort Nisqually?
What was the name of the largest mission in the Oregon Territory?
What is the Whitman mission?
After the Point No Point Treaty, indigenous people had to move off of their lands and on to ____________.
What are reservations?
A piece of land controlled by a government or group but that is not yet a state
What is a territory?