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Washington state review (Final)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This region divides the west and east side of the state.
a)
Western Lowlands
b)
Columbia Plateau
c)
Cascade Mountains
d)
Coast
2.
What  company supplies NASA and the International Space Station? It began in a Seattle boathouse almost 100 years ago.
a)
Amazon.com
b)
Microsoft
c)
Costco 
d)
Boeing
3.
What country borders Washington on the North?
a)
Mexico
b)
Canada
c)
Oregon
d)
Idaho
4.
What state borders Washington to the south?
a)
Oregon
b)
Idaho
c)
California
d)
Canada
5.
Seattle/Tacoma residents consume more coffee than any other region in the country.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
What is the tallest mountain in the  Cascade Mountain range?
a)
Mount St. Helens
b)
Mount Baker
c)
Mount Rainier
d)
Mount Adams
7.
What are Washington's most important man made structures for economics?
a)
Tractors
b)
Dams
c)
Missile silos
d)
Fruit orchard heaters
8.

Native Americans lived in the Northwest long before explorers came.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

Explored the Columbia River in 1792

a)

Robert Gray

b)

Vasco de Gama

c)

Columbus

d)

Cook

10.

Explored and Mapped the Puget Sound area and named many feature after his friends. Claimed it all for Britain

a)

Columbia

b)

Robert Gray

c)

George Vancouver

d)

Juan de Fuca

11.

Helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition. Probably taken as a slave.

a)

Sacajawea

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Hiawatha

d)

Sitting Bull

12.

What are Lewis and Clark most known for?

a)

exploring the South Pacific

b)

Exploring the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest

c)

Mapping the Hudson River and North Atlantic

d)

First Europeans to sail from Europe to India by going around Africa

13.

What U.S. president hired Lewis and Clark to explore the land west of the United States?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

George Washington

d)

John Adams

14.

What Japanese city did the United States drop the atomic bomb?

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Tokyo

c)

Osaka

d)

Yokohama

15.

Who was the president during WW2

a)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Eisenhower

d)

George Washington

16.

Who signed the Homestead Act?

a)

President Washington

b)

President Lincoln

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Andrew Jackson

17.

How many acres of land did the Homestead Act offer?

a)

100

b)

150

c)

160

d)

200

18.

Long periods of no rain

a)

irrigation

b)

drought

c)

sodbusters

19.

A person who migrated to the West to take advantage of the Homestead Act

a)

migrant

b)

drought

c)

homesteader

20.

Why did the government support homesteading?

a)

to encourage trade with Canada

b)

to encourage settlers to farm the western land

21.

Why did homesteaders want to live near the railroad?

a)

to make it easy to transport their crops to market

b)

to take vacations in the open space in the West

22.

What is NOT a reason that pioneers wanted to go west?

a)

Free Land

b)

Gold

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

vacation

23.

Where did the Oregon Trail start?

a)

Independence, Missouri

b)

Independence, Kansas

c)

St. Louis, Missouri

d)

Chicago, Illinois

24.

Where did the Oregon Trail end?

a)

Oregon City, Oregon

b)

Portland, Oregon

c)

Chicago, Illinois

d)

Seattle, Washington

25.
The ____________________ made it easier to travel, communicate, and trade. 
a)
Comstock Lode
b)
Transcontinental Railroad
c)
Vigilantes
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
26.
When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
a)
December 6th, 1940
b)
December 7th, 1940
c)
December 6th, 1941
d)
December 7th, 1941
27.
Fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women’s help during WW11
a)
Tuskegee Airmen
b)
Rosie the Riveter
c)
Battle of the Bulge
28.
Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
a)
Truman believed that dropping the bomb would save thousands of American lives. 
b)
Truman believed it would cause Hitler and Germany to surrender. 
c)
Winston Churchill convinced Truman that the atomic bomb would scare the Russians into returning gained after the war. 
d)
None of the above.
29.
What were the names of the two cities that were destroyed by the atomic bombs?
a)
Pearl Harbor and Hawaii 
b)
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
c)
France and Italy
d)
Washington D.C and New York City 
30.
Codename for building of atomic bomb
a)
operation overlord
b)
manhattan project
c)
blair witch project 
d)
project 832
31.
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 
a)
Tornados
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday 
d)
Hurricanes
32.
A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. 
a)
New Deal
b)
Roaring 20's
c)
Great Depression
d)
Cold War 
33.
What name is given to the area most affected by the megafloods?
a)
Channeled Scablands
b)
Channeled Scrublands
c)
Charted Scablands
d)
Charted Scrublands
34.
100-ton boulders deposited by the megafloods are known as:
a)
ecstatics
b)
elastics
c)
erratics
d)
statistics
35.
The water source of the megafloods was the:
a)
Spokane River
b)
Atlantic Ocean
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Glacial Lake Missoula
36.
__________ dammed water until it was nearly a half mile deep, creating pressure that ultimately led to dam failure and massive flooding.
a)
Trees
b)
Glaciers
c)
Icebergs
d)
Gophers
37.
What was the railroad that crosses a continent called?
a)
The reservation
b)
The railroad drive
c)
The homesteaders railroad
d)
The Transcontinental Railroad
38.
Who was the leader of the Nez Perce Tribe who tried to run to Canada, but was captured and taken to Oklahoma?
a)
Samuel Morse
b)
Chief Joseph
c)
Chief John
d)
Levi Strauss
39.

How many representatives in Congress does WA have?

a)

10

b)

9

c)

8

d)

12

40.

How many senators does each state have?

a)

2

b)

10

c)

12

d)

5

41.

what is the capital of WA?

a)

Olympia

b)

Tacoma

c)

Seattle

d)

Spokane

42.

What nuclear substance did Hanford produce during ww2?

a)

plutonium

b)

uranium

43.

When did WA become a state?

a)

November 11, 1889

b)

February 9, 1880

c)

November 7, 1880

d)

December 12, 1897

44.

When did Mt. St. Helen erupt last?

a)

1980

b)

1981

c)

1982

d)

1880

45.

What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?

a)

Popular vacation spot

b)

Near the equator

c)

Most wildfires occur

d)

Most volcanoes occur

46.
Volcanoes are found...
a)
on land
b)
under water
c)
on islands
d)
all of the above
47.
What does not border Washington State?
a)
Idahao
b)
California
c)
Oregon
d)
Canada
48.

What famous river starts in Canada and ends in the Pacific Ocean?

a)

The Columbia River

b)

The Straight of Juan De Fuca

c)

The Hood Canal

d)

The Straight of Georgia.

49.
Who was president of the United States when WW2 ended?
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Harry Truman
c)
John F. Kennedy
d)
Jefferson DAvis
50.

What explorer was the first who went all the way to the head (start) of the Columbia river?

a)

David Thompson

b)

Marco Polo

c)

George Vancouver

d)

Christopher Columbus

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