History Crossword
Across
- 2. This event was a train of over 1,000 emigrants in covered wagons to settle in Oregon.
- 6. This fort was an encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country
- 8. This native american woman helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition by interpreting their languages and translating, among many other things.
- 10. This was the rallying cry of a land dispute that wanted to take Texas, California, and the Oregon Territory. The latitude line was this cry.
- 11. This man the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which sought to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
- 15. This man was an explorer and a british officer and had an island named after him.
- 19. This 19th-century fur trading post was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 20. This navigator achieved the first recorded European contact with the coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
- 22. This battle, fought between the U.S. and the U.K. in the San Juan islands was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
- 24. At this council, a treaty was signed giving the tribes on Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakama reservations more land.
- 25. This man was the first Governor of Washington.
Down
- 1. Ioannis Phokas is better known by this name.
- 3. Along with Meriwether Lewis, this man helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- 4. This man made his fortune in a fur trade monopoly and by buying real estate in New York.
- 5. This Spanish Basque explorer of the Pacific Northwest was sent by New Spain, to explore the area north of Alta California.
- 7. A cultural belief that settlers were destined to expand across the continent.
- 9. This man was regarded as the founder of Seattle and served two terms as mayor, and was the city’s wealthiest resident as long as he lived.
- 12. This Suquamish chief had a washington city named after him.
- 13. This company primarly traded fut, but also knives, kettles, beads, needles, and blankets among other things.
- 14. This act permitted the entrance of Montana and Washington into the USA.
- 16. Built by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Kettle Falls on the Columbia River, it operated in the Columbia fur district.
- 17. A nickname for young, fluffy sea otters.
- 18. In 1890 this person became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Rainier.
- 21. This treaty marked the last loss of land for the U.K. in the Continental United States.
- 23. This is a Chinook word meaning by and by, the unofficial state motto of Washington.