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Across
  1. 2. the first non-Native American woman to climb Mt. Rainier in 1890
  2. 4. An entrepreneur and a politician, regarded as a founder of the city of Seattle
  3. 5. An American explorer, soldier, Native American agent, and territorial governor
  4. 7. A British officer known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions
  5. 10. A Greek maritime pilot in the service of the King of Spain, Philip II
  6. 11. The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the Americas was both justified and inevitable
  7. 14. A U.S. policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas
  8. 16. An original white settlement in what was to become the city of Seattle
  9. 17. A meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama
  10. 20. Polk called for expansion that included Texas, California, and the entire Oregon territory
  11. 21. A confrontation between the U.S. and the U.K. in 1859
  12. 22. Estimated 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for Oregon. They were led initially by John Gantt
  13. 23. An American businessman, real estate developer, investor, inventor, writer and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War
  14. 24. A U. S. Army post in the Washington Territory
Down
  1. 1. The first governor of Washington State
  2. 3. A mountain pass in Washington State
  3. 6. A Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition at 16 years old
  4. 8. A Spanish Basque explorer of the Pacific Northwest
  5. 9. A Suquamish and Duwamish chief
  6. 11. An indigenous group whose homeland is in Canada and parts of the U.S.
  7. 12. The encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  8. 13. The Convention respecting boundaries of slaves between the U.S. and the U.K.
  9. 15. an American career Army officer and politician, who served as governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853-1857
  10. 18. A political dispute between the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling U.S. that took place during the summer of 1789
  11. 19. A U.S. statute that permitted the entrance of Montana and Washington into the United States of America