Washington State Growth

What year did WA become a state?

• 1889

• 1989

• 1898

• 1998

What started the Great Seattle Fire?

• a cigarette

• a glue pot

• a liquor shop

• a camp fire

What immigrant group was excluded from WA and not allowed to enter the state after 1882?

• Spanish

• British

• Canadian

• Chinese

What industry did most Chinese immigrants work in?

• Shipping

• Railroads

• Food Service

• Business

What was the name of the Transcontinental Railroad that connected to Seattle?

• Union Pacific

• Southern Pacific

• Great Northern

• Railroad of Greatness

This timber company made the largest land purchase in WA history.

• Weyerhaeuser Company

• Union Timber

• Pacific Company

• Klondike Timber

What was the white group that opposed immigration in WA?

• Catholics

• Nativists

• Emigrates

• Semitics

Where was the world's largest sawmill built in 1886?

• Seattle

• Olympia

• Bremerton

• Tacoma

Where was gold discovered in 1897?

• Yukon Territory Canada

• Waterfront Region of Seattle

• Southern Puget Sound

• Olympic Mountains

Why was the Klondike Gold Rush profitable for Seattle?

• Seattle businesses sold provisions to miners

• It was close to the Klondike so some gold came down the river to Seattle

• Seattle sold the land people mined for gold on

• Seattle did not make any money from the gold rush