1. What kind of locations attracted the first settlements in eastern Washington?
2. How did the earliest settlers of eastern Washington make a living?

3. Why was Ainsworth founded?

4. Who first established Fort Spokane?

5. Who was James Glover, and what was his role in helping Spokane to grow?

6. What discoveries in Idaho helped Spokane to develop?

7. How were the Spokane falls used?

Western Washington Industries
8. What replaced the small individual lumber mills of western Washington?

9. What was the Weyerhaeuser Company, and how did it impact western Washington?

10. What was found in the Cascade Mountains in the late 1800s, and how did it impact western Washington?

11. Who was William Rust, and what was his role in helping Tacoma develop new industry?

12. What kind of farming developed in western Washington?

13. Describe urbanization.

14. What was the “mosquito fleet?”

15. Describe the social and cultural divisions that developed in western Washington towns.

16. Name three towns that were settled mainly by people of a single ethnic group. Which group founded which town?

17. What was the result of the Seattle fire of 1889?

18. How did Seattle change its geography? Why?

Answers \/

Explanation:

1. Columbia River, east of present-day The Dalles, Oregon, were part of the first settlement in the Puget Sound area

2. Settlements in the eastern part of the state were largely agricultural and focused around missionary establishments in the Walla Walla Valley. Missionaries attempted to 'civilize' the Indians, often in ways that disregarded or misunderstood native practices.

3. Mary Ainsworth was a Canadian developmental psychologist best known for her work in attachment theory. She created the classic study used in attachment research called 'The Strange Situation. '

4. Lt. Colonel Henry C. Merriam

5. James Nettle Glover is commonly referred to as the “Father of Spokane.” He, accompanied by his wife Susan Tabitha Crump Glover, essentially created the city after purchasing 160 acres of land and giving chunks of it away to anyone who promised to build a business there.

6. Spokane was transformed when the Northern Pacific Railroad arrived in 1881 and was linked transcontinentally in 1883. In that same year, Spokane experienced its first boom when the discovery of gold in the Coeur d'Alene mining district established Spokane as the service center for the north Idaho mines.

7. The Spokane Falls and River served as the center of culture and community for the Spokane Tribe. Divided into three groups—the Lower, Upper and Middle Spokane—the Spokane Tribe used the falls as a gathering place not only for fishing, but also for celebrations, ceremonies, games and time as a community.

8. The small individual lumber mills of western Washington was used for lumbering activities due the presence of large trees/forests in the Washington . this activities were a source of income for the small individual lumber mills but their activities was not properly coordinated, and this prompted the government and major lumbering mills to come into play and take over almost all the lumbering activities in the area and in the process organize and preserve some forest areas for the purpose of preserving trees for lumbering as well. the Northwest lumber industry was able to come into Western Washington due to the presence of the railway reaching the northwest.

9. Long's leadership, Weyerhaeuser was instrumental in starting the forest fire protection movement. By 1908, the Washington Fire Protection Association had 75 forest fire patrolmen working in Northwest forests and had extinguished 350 fires.

10. Cascade mountain range (idk how it impacted western washington)

11. After spending time in Colorado, he was lured to Pierce County, Washington, by businessmen who hired him to manage their new smelter on the shores of Commencement Bay near Tacoma. Over the next two decades, he was instrumental in making Tacoma one of the top cities in the West for ore smelting and refining.

12. Wheat was the main crop grown in the Walla Walla area, along with apples, peas, and grapes. Sheep and cattle ranchers often established a homestead and then allowed their livestock to graze the land freely on the open range.

13. The process of making an area more urban. - Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

14. (The term Mosquito Fleet has had a variety of uses around the world.)

15. I honestly don't know, sorry.

16.  Again, I don't know.

17. Building commenced immediately, and the buildings were made of brick and stone. One month after the fire, voters approved funding for a city-owned water system, which would ultimately tap the Cedar River. Within a year Seattle's population jumped from 25,000 to 43,000. A city was born.

18. Seattle lies in the Puget Lowland, the structure of which is determined by the movement of plates along the Juan de Fuca subduction zone to the west. A tectonic feature, the Seattle Fault, crosses Puget Sound in an east-west direction, traveling through downtown Seattle westward to the Cascade Range.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”