Oregon Trail Map. (start & finish)
Beginning in Missouri, the trail snaked through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon, while also touching parts of Washington and Iowa.
Month: March 2016
Isaac Stevens – WA Territory’s First Governor – by Amira and Jessie
Background:
Isaac Ingalls Steven was the first Governor of the Washington Territory. Born March 25, 1818- September 1, 1862. He had an education at Phillips Academy at Massachusetts, then later made an appointment to west point, where he Graduated in 1839, first in his class.
political career begins:
in 1853 he successfully applied to president Pierce for the governorship of the new Washington territory. Wasting no time, Governor Stevens quickly organized a territorial government settled claims by the British- owned Hudson bay company, extended $5,000 for books to set up a territorial library, and petitioned Congress for land on which to build a university.
Hell Gate Treaty Council:
Proceeding further east, into what is now Montana, Stevens met with the Flathead Salish, Pend D’ Oreille, and Kootenai Tribes. Isaac Promised that he would procure easement rights from the Blackfeet to allow the tribes to hunt east and to the rocky mountains.
War Breaks Out:
12 Days after the walla walla treaty was signed, the Oregon weekly times published an announcement that said: “By an express provision of the treaty, the country embraced by the cession and not included in the reservation is open to settlement…” This announcement was sent out to streams of settlers and gold seekers to lands east of the cascades, igniting outrage among the tribes and eventually driving the Yakamas to war against any intruders.
William E. Boeing founder of Boeing.
William E. Boeing left Yale University in 1903 to take advantage of opportunities in the risky and cyclical, but financially rewarding, Northwest timber industry. That experience would serve him well in aviation.
Under his guidance, a tiny airplane manufacturing company grew into a huge corporation of related industries. When post-Depression legislation in 1934 mandated the dispersion of the corporation, Boeing sold his interests in the Boeing Airplane Co., but continued to work on other business ventures.
He became one of America’s most successful breeders of thoroughbred horses. He never lost his interest in aviation, and during World War II he volunteered as a consultant to the company. He lived until 1956, long enough to see the company he started enter the jet age.
William E. Boeing was a private person, a visionary, a perfectionist, and a stickler for the facts. The wall of his outer office bore a placard that read: “2329 Hippocrates said: 1. There is no authority except facts. 2. Facts are obtained by accurate observation. 3. Deductions are to be made only from facts. 4. Experience has proved the truth of these rules.”
According to his son, William Boeing, Jr., Boeing was a fast and avid reader and remembered everything he read. He was also a perfectionist. While visiting his airplane building shop at the Duwamish shipyard in 1916, Boeing saw a set of improperly sawed spruce ribs. He brushed them to the floor and walked all over them until they were broken. A frayed aileron cable caused him to remark, “I, for one, will close up shop rather than send out work of this kind.”
http://www.boeing.com/history/pioneers/william-e-boeing.page
Bill Gates the poineer of the computer
Bill gates was born on 1955 October 28 and had 2 sisters kristi and Libby. Bill first started his career only building a computer on 1975 we he co-founded one of the biggest PC software company’s ever to be made: Microsoft. Bill’s first creation was the BASIC.
On November 20, 1985 Microsoft launched Windows, months lather they partnered with IBM.
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lewis and clark land explorations
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May 1804, from near St. Louis making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark. Their perilous journey lasted from May 1804 to September 1806. The primary objective was to explore and map the newly acquired territory, find a practical route across the Western half of the continent, and establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it.
The campaign’s secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area’s plants, animal life, and geography, and establish trade with local Native American tribes. With maps, sketches, and journals in hand, the expedition returned to St. Louis to report their findings to Jefferson.
According to Jefferson himself, one goal was to find “the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.” Jefferson also placed special importance on declaring U.S. sovereignty over the land occupied by the many different tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.
posted By Ethan Borg, and Noah Charleston
Source: Wikipedia
labor movement in washington state during WW1
JOHN RANKIN ROGERS was born in Brunswick, Maine. After serving as a druggist’s apprentice, he worked in a number of occupations before buying a farm in Kansas. He held local offices in both the Greenback Party and Union Labor Party, and used his newspaper, the Kansas Commoner, to support first the Union Labor Party, and then the Farmers’ Alliance, which championed the causes of western farmers. After his farm was foreclosed, he moved his family to the newly-formed state of Washington, opening a mercantile and real estate business in Puyallup. He helped organized the Farmers’ Alliance there and supported the People’s Party. In 1894 he was elected to the state legislature, and won election to the governorship in 1896 as a Populist. As governor, Rogers supported public education, a centralized administration, and economy in government. A fervent nationalist, he also supported commercial and military expansion. In 1900 he was reelected to a second gubernatorial term as a Democrat. He died in office of pneumonia and was buried in Puyallup.
posted by Kaden
Paleo history map by Maggie, Melody, and Isabelle
wwI dog tags
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