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🌲Washington State History
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439 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Washington State History exam

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1855 Walla Walla Council
1855 Yakama Treaty
1863 Nez Perce Treaty
1968 Franklin High School Sit-In
1971 Seattle School District Desegregation Plan
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
2004 gubernatorial recount
2014 Carlton Complex Fire
54-40 or fight slogan
737 Max Crisis

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Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
African American history in Washington
Agricultural export
Agricultural shifts
Albert D. Rosellini
Albert Rosellini
Alice in Chains
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area
Amendment process
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Legion
Animistic worldview
Anti-nuclear movement
Aquatic lands enhancement account

B

B-17 Flying Fortress
Bannock War
Base realignment and closure
Base Realignment and Closure Act
Battle of Seattle
Battle of Steptoe Butte
Battle of the Big Hole
Battle of Toppenish Creek
Bernie Whitebear
Bertha Knight Landes
Bilingual education efforts in public schools
Billy Frank Jr.
Bing Crosby
Boeing 247

C

Cal Anderson
Camas bulbs
Canwell Committee
Captain George Vancouver
Carl Maxey
Cascade Mountains
Cascade Tunnel
Cascadia Identity
Cascadia subduction zone
Catholic mission
Cayuse War
Cedar as a Sacred Resource
Cedar bark clothing
Cedar Dugout Canoes
Celestial Navigation
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph Dam
Chief Kamiakin
Chief Leschi
Chief Owhi
Chief Seattle
Chiefdoms
Chilkat Blankets
Chinese Exclusion Act Repeal 1943
Chinese railroad workers
Chinook Jargon
Chinook Salmon
City council
Clean Energy Transformation Act
Climate zones
Coal mining
Coeur d'Alene Reservation
Coeur d'Alene War
Coho salmon
Colonel George Wright
Columbia Basin Project
Columbia Basin Project (1933)