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  1. 3. This United States statute is known for splitting the Territory of Dakota into two states.
  2. 8. Washington State’s largest city is named after this Suquamish and Duwamish chief.
  3. 9. This is a United States policy that began in 1823 and opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
  4. 12. This word is the motto of Washington and refers to the white settlers' hope that the region would in time rival the East Coast.
  5. 13. The first non-Native American woman to climb Mt. Rainier in 1890.
  6. 16. This was an international treaty made between the United States and the United Kingdom respecting fisheries, boundaries, and the restoration of slaves between the two parties.
  7. 19. An American career Army officer and politician who served as governor of the Territory of Washington for four years.
  8. 20. A German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul and investor who mainly made his fortune in a fur trade monopoly and by investing in real estate.
  9. 21. During the winter of 1805-1806, this fort was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River.
  10. 23. This British fur trading post was built in 1824 and was also the early terminus of the Oregon Trail.
  11. 24. This American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor is famous for his role as a one of the leaders in the first expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
  12. 25. A British officer of the Royal Navy who is best known for his exploration of the North Pacific coast of North America.
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  1. 1. A British explorer in the British Royal Navy, famous for his voyages in the Pacific Ocean and his accurate mapping of it.
  2. 2. A meeting that took place in the Pacific Northwest between the U.S. and the sovereign tribal nations of five Native American tribes.
  3. 4. This was a 19th-century United States cultural belief that its settlers were destined to expand throughout the American continents.
  4. 5. A retail business group that owns and operates retail stores in Canada and the United States.
  5. 6. This war was a conflict between the United States Army and a Native American Tribe centered in Washington.
  6. 7. This American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator is famous for his role as a one of the leaders in the first expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
  7. 10. This controversy involved the competing claims of Spain and Britain for control of trade and navigation on the Northwest Coast and in the Pacific Ocean.
  8. 11. This war was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
  9. 14. These people are a multiancestral indigenous group whose homeland is in Canada and also parts of the United States.
  10. 15. This man is best known for his claim to have explored the semi-mythical strait known as the Strait of Anián.
  11. 17. The first Governor of the State of Washington.
  12. 18. An entrepreneur and a politician who is regarded as the founder of the city of Seattle.
  13. 22. A Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped and traveled with the Lewis and Clark Expedition from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean in order to help establish cultural contacts with Native Americans.