| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What did the Washington settlers need to get across the mountains? | road |
| Where was the first road built? | Naches Pass |
| Who did the U.S. government hire to build the road? | Lieutenant Mullan |
| From which to which river was the road built? | Columbia to Missouri |
| Who did the government build the road for? | army |
| Who were some of the first people to use it? | miners |
| What discovery in the NW led to rapid growth? | gold |
| What town expecially led to rapid growth due to gold? | Walla Walla |
| The growth due to gold led to the creation of what territory? | Idaho |
| No one ever found the treasure of ________ creek? | Ingalls |
| The treaty of 1846 was not clear about who owned _________. | San Juan Islands |
| England claimed the border was ________. | Rosario Strait |
| What did the U.S. claim the border was? | Haro Strait |
| A pig and some _______ almost started a war during the dispute. | potatoes |
| Who got the Islands? | United States |
| In 1890, what was the most populated race in WA? | Canadians |
| It was better to be a state instead of a _______. | territory |
| Who appointed territorial officials? | president |
| the territorial _______ to congress could not vote. | delegate |
| What did the territorial congress sometimes do to the law? | veto it |
| What is a bicameral legislature? | two house legislature |
| The first university was started in _________. | Seattle |
| The right for women to vote is womens _________. | suffrage |
| The _______ _______ law helped provide equal education around the state. | Barefoot Schoolboy |
| When did WA become a state? | 1889 |
| IN 1889, Ellensburg & Seattle & Spokane were destroyed by what? | fire |
| What is a person who comes from a native country into a new country? | immigrant |
| What allowed immigration between China and the US? | Burlingame Treaty |
| What stopped further immigration between China and the US? | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| What was the first state that the Chinese settled in? | California |
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