8th Grade Washington History about Statehood and The state Constitution

Chief Kamiakin

Plateau Native that Isaac Stevens

A Century of Dishonor

Book by Helen Hunt Jackson condemning US policy towards Natives

Washington state became a state when?

1889

In what section of the Constitution does Washington recognize Native American sovereignty?

Article 26

Suffrage Bill

Territorial Legislative branch showed support of Women's voting rights in 1883

Who was directed to advertise Seattle as the 'gateway' to the Klondike?

Erastus Brainerd

Tacoma

Potential Economic Hub

Kanakas, OR Hawaiian men

Men who worked in the Hudson Bay company and started lives in the pacific Northwest.

Article 1 Section 24

Protection for the right to bear arms.

Nativists

Americans who put United States citizens above the immigrants especially from anti-Catholics and anti-Semitic

How did Issac Stevens view his role in appointing leadership in tribes?

Paternal

What happens once a treaty is made regarding Native lands?

Natives would go to lands not suitable for commercial development.

Who was a teenager that respected Chief Joseph?

Eskrine Wood

John James

Had an attack staged by neighbors who wanted to get him involved with War, and still managed to stay peaceful.

What does the Washington state Constitution protect in Article 1 section 7?

The right to privacy.

James Hill

railroad entrepreneur who built and operated the Great Northern Railroad from St. Paul, Minnesota to Everett, Washington; without any federal grants or subsidies, the Great Northern Railroad made money by shipping goods to Asia, GNR became the most successful transcontinental railroad and the only one that wasn't eventually forced into bankruptcy

Weyerhaeuser Company

Timber company owned by Fredrick Weyerhaeuser, that bought 900,000 land from James Hill's company for 5.4 million

Washington States Constitution 1878

Was denied 11 times, speculation around Democrats and Republicans keeping balance.

Dawes Act

1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners

Dawes Act

Required Natives to give up tribal ties to benefit from.

Henry Villard

an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway. completed the Tracks in 1883