Washington State History Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  2. 7. Belgian Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus
  3. 9. a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands
  4. 10. He was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.
  5. 14. is a mountain pass in the northwest United States, through the Cascade Range in Washington.
  6. 15. the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River
  7. 18. they will often float on kelp beds to open tough shells with the aid of a rock.
  8. 21. was a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas
  9. 22. was an international incident and political dispute between the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling United States of America
  10. 23. 19th-century fur trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department
  11. 25. was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Down
  1. 1. of 1843 In what was dubbed "The Great Migration of 1843" or the "Wagon Train of 1843", an estimated 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for Oregon
  2. 2. was a territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations
  3. 3. was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the Northwest Plateau
  4. 5. permitted the entrance of Montana and Washington into the United States of America
  5. 6. a shortened version of North-Wester
  6. 8. This explorer was sent to explore the area north of Alta California in response to information that there were colonial Russian settlements there.
  7. 11. The first Governor of the U.S. State of Washington
  8. 12. Council was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama
  9. 13. was a British officer of the Royal Navy best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions
  10. 16. Was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief. A leading figure among his people and has a city named after him
  11. 17. is a Chinook word meaning by and by, the unofficial state motto of Washington
  12. 19. was a Canadian retail business group and fur trading business
  13. 20. was a U. S. Army post in the Washington Territory and was originally called Harney’s depot.
  14. 24. are a multi ancestral indigenous group whose homeland is in Canada and parts of the United States between the Great Lakes region and the Rocky Mountains.