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PacNw 214@SCC
chapters 5-8
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History
Undergraduate 2
01/15/2010

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The Whitman's
Definition

narcissa prentiss/marcus whitman

basically wed to travel west and do missionary work

207 days to go 3000 miles

1st white woman to cross us coast to coast

 

Term
Whitmans indian trouble 1
Definition

chose missionary site on walla walla river away from nez perces

 

warned not to settle among the cayuse

 

ways of life clashed, farming was beneath the cayuse

 

mission shut down for lack of civilizing the cayuse

Term
whitmans indian trouble after he returned east to save the missions
Definition

returned with almost 1000 whites, cayuse viewed it as an army

 

people sick on the oregon trail would head north to mission, disease killed 50% of cayuse in two years

 

indians thought whitman practiced voodoo letting indians children die and saving white children

 

1 cayuse tricked whitman into an argument while the other snuck up behind him and killed him with a tomahawk

 

also killed his wife, 11 others, and took hostages

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after the cayuse attack
Definition

hudson bay comapny outraged

 

shortly after the first indian war of the NW broke out 1848

 

cayuses vs. volunteer force of 500 from willamette valley

 

2 years they eluded the whites and finally gave up 5 tribesmen including the 2 who killed the whitmans

 

when the dust settled oregon became a territory so it could be governed, making whitman a martyr

Term
head flattening
Definition
distinguished the freeborn from the slaves(round heads)
Term
Hall Jackson Kelly
Definition

boston school teacher obsessed with colonizing oregon

 

had never been, learned from hunters, seamen, and lewis and clarks journal

 

 

Term
where was jason lee's mission located
Definition

willamette river 10 miles north of salem

 

jason lee brought 51 people from new england as a counter presence to the hudson bay company

 

big supporter of oregon in the 1830's

Term

American Board of Commissioners for Foriegn Missions

 

ABCFM

Definition

protestant based, the group who sponsored the Whitman's

 

backfired, indians living close to missionaries became sick

 

also made a christian/non-christian division between tribes

Term
Father De Smet
Definition

jesuit missionary from belgium

 

skilled negotiator between indians and whites

 

established the sacred heart mission at cataldo 1842, flooding caused it to be moved to its present location in 1846

Term
Henry and Eliza Spalding
Definition

Lapwai mission

 

came with the whitmans, spalding failed to gain the trust of the indians and wes demoted

Term
Oregon Trail
Definition

trickle of migrants in 1840, by 1860 53,000

 

brought white disease to the indians

 

10% of travelers usually died

 

first family arrived in 1840

 

1842 dr. elijah white brought the first wagon train

 

typically took 7 months

 

most died to disease caused by their own pollution along the trail

 

oxen, wagon, and gear cost $400

 

averaged 15 miles a day

Term
Oregon Treaty
Definition
Term
Manifest Destiny
Definition

nations god-given destiny to expand to the limits of the continent

 

bonneville- first explorer of the oregon trail

 

fremont the mapmaker

 

54 40 or fight, northern most bounday of proposed international boundary

 

president polk knew we had to have the pugent sound as a portal to the pacific

Term
Oregon Territory and Statehood
Definition

created by whitman's death

 

earliest oregon trail settlers in willamette valley

 

political limbo from joint occupation between us and briain

 

hudson bay company had regional dominance

 

oregon treaty 1846 failed to have the us recognize oregon as a territory until whitman took a hatchet to the head

 

washington territory arved from oregon in 1853, and idaho from washington in 1863

 

 

oregon became a state in 1859

 

outlawed slavery but didnt allow them to live in the state

Term
Donation Land Claim Act
Definition
The Donation Land Law of 1850 precluded blacks and Hawaiians from its provisions for land claims. Ignoring Indian claims to the land, this act offered 320-acre parcels to white male citizens and their wives.
Term
1855 Indian Treaties
Definition
U.S.-Indian treaties of 1854 through 1856 left local groups with only a fraction of their former homelands. Tribes ceded millions of acres in Washington Territory alone, in exchange for a guarantee or promise that their rights would be protected, that some lands would be reserved, and that many services would be provided for them.
Term
gold rushes
Definition

before the "49rs" cali's white pop. was 11k, after discovery in 1848 pop. soared to over 100k and led to cali becoming a state in 1850

 

after the rush "49rs" settled to the fertile east like boise

 

indians pissed, just like we get mad at the "californianss" moving to spokane today

Term
Washington and Idaho Territory
Definition
Term
Nez Perce War
Definition

flight of a group of nez perce in 1877

 

caused by whites trespassing for gold on indian land

 

1847 whitman massacre was followed by treaties and wars finally ending in indians going on to reservations by 1879

Term
Woman Suffering in the PNW
Definition


  Women and children formed a majority of the factory workers in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although women remained a majority in the manufacturing work force in 1840, they were replaced increasingly by immigrant men after the 1820s.

 

pac nw almost all male

 

Abigail Scott Duniway - mother of womans rights in pnw

 

1878or,1881wa, woman could own property and keep all of there wages

 

WA voided female suffrage in 1887 on a technicality

 



 

 

Term
Anti-Mormonism
Definition

Lemhi, mormon mission on the salmon river, abandoned after 3 years due to tensions rising with indians and the us army

 

voted as a block for democrats

 

election losers stated that they took their views from salt lake city and didn't care about idaho

 

edmunds act of 1882 - basically barred mormons from participating in the legal and political systems

 

test oath act 1885

 

 

Term
what was the relationship bewtween indians and euro-americans during the fur trade
Definition
Term
what was role of indian women in the fur trade? how did it change through time?
Definition
Term
What was the relationship between American Indians and missionaries? Was it different from that between Indians and fur traders? Why?
Definition
Term
Think about the different demands on the land made by fur traders versus farmers. How did these demands influence their attitudes about Indian peoples?
Definition
Term
Why did Oregon Trail pioneers come to the Pacific Northwest?
Definition
Term
What were the four stages of Indian-white relations in the Pacific Northwest? Be able to explain what took place in each.
Definition
Term
What were some of the ethnic/racial and religious groups in the Pacific Northwest by 1890? How were they treated?
Definition
Term
the great migration
Definition
whitmans return trip from going east to save his mission, he had 900 people with him in 100 wagons 700 head of oxen and cattle.
Term
missionaries
Definition

prominate after fur trade in the 1830's and 40's

 

 

catholics, protestants, mormons

 

 

quickly outnumbered by pioneers coming west

Term
oregon city
Definition
first municipality west of the rocky mountains
Term
1887 General Allotment Act(Dawes Severalty Act)
Definition
was sponsored by a group of reformers (especially the Women’s National Indian Association) who believed that the only way to “save” American Indians was to “civilize” them and assimilate them into white society by requiring them to sever their tribal relationships and become small farmers. The Dawes Act resulted in Indians losing two-thirds of the land they held in 1887. Only the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934 ended the genocidal provisions of the Dawes Act and returned land to tribal ownership
Term
portland
Definition

overcame oregon city as the hub due to its location

 

within a decade it established itself as the population and economic capitol of the northwest hinterland

 

 

Term
seattle
Definition

because of wilkes(explorer) we have the boundaries we do.

 

he lost a boat at the mouth of the columbia but said the pugent sound wase safe and the best water way in the world

 

idaho is the way it is because seattlites were scared to lose the capital to one of the mining towns in the east

Term
PNW Gold Rush
Definition

1860 Elias Pierce hit gold in orofino creek

 

the "clearwater" rush

 

areas around lewiston built illegally on nez perce land, to many people to stop them

 

the boise basin gave up $20mil in gold by 1866

Term
4 phases of indian-white relations
Definition

1st- peaceful from 1st maritime exploration until whitman attack in 1847

 

2nd- 3 decades of conflict cayuse war 1848-1879when the reservations were put into effect

 

3rd - indians became colonized, broken people living on bad land

General alottment act of 1887

 

4th- contradiction, whites reluctantly honoring past agreements and indians taking great amounts of self pride.1924, us citizenship to indian people

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