Geography
This river forms most of Washington’s southern border.
What is the Columbia River?
The inherent authority of tribes to govern themselves is called this.
What is tribal sovereignty?
The U.S. Constitution divides government into these three branches.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
Washington became a state in this year.
What is 1889?
In 1900, Washington’s population was about 500,000. By 2010, it had grown to nearly this many people.
What is 7 million?
This mountain range creates a rain shadow effect over Sequim.
What are the Olympic Mountains?
This treaty displaced the Nisqually people and contributed to the Puget Sound War.
What is the Medicine Creek Treaty?
This principle ensures no branch of government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This document serves as Washington’s highest law.
What is the Washington State Constitution?
This 1917 strike by Washington loggers and mill workers won the eight-hour workday.
What is the lumber industry strike?
This volcano erupted in 1980, destroying 230 square miles of forest.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This leader was executed after being accused of murder during the Puget Sound War.
Who is Chief Leschi?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Washington’s first territorial governor was this man.
Who is Isaac Stevens?
This federal law passed in 1975 gave tribes more power to govern themselves and run their own programs.
What is the Indian Self-Determination Act?
This mountain is the tallest in Washington State.
What is Mt. Rainier?
This governor imposed martial law during conflicts with Native tribes.
Who is Isaac Stevens?
Process allowing citizens to propose new laws and vote on them directly.
What is an Initiative?
This city served as Washington’s first territorial capital.
What is Olympia?
During World War II, about 14,400 people of this ancestry in Washington were sent to internment camps.
Who are Japanese Americans?
This tectonic plate subducts beneath the North American Plate off Washington’s coast.
What is the Juan De Fuca Plate?
This tribe’s leader, Chief Joseph, led a 1,400-mile retreat in 1877.
Who are the Nez Perce?
This system allows states and the federal government to share power.
What is federalism?
This was the main reason settlers wanted Washington to become a state in the late 1800s.
What is so they could elect their own government instead of having a governor appointed by the U.S. President?
This 1974 court decision guaranteed tribes up to half of Washington’s salmon harvest.
What is the Boldt Decision?