WASHINGTON 



WASHINGTON 



RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON WASHINGTON 



(An Outline suitable fur Washington will bo found with the article "State.") 



What was meant by "fifty-four forty or fight," and what part did the slogan play 

 in the history of this region? 



What is the most densely populated section of Washington? What has made 

 it so? 



What is the railway mileage to each hundred square miles of area? How does 

 the state compare in this respect with the states upon which it borders? 



Make the same comparison between Washington and the two states which it 

 most nearly resembles in size. (See table with article UNITED STATES.) 



Under what condition do boys and girls between fifteen and sixteen years of age 

 have to attend school in this state? 



About what proportion of the total apple crop of the United States is produced 

 in Washington? (See APPLE.) 



Show the close connection between the manufacturing industries of Washington 

 and its natural resources. 



How many cities of the United States have a greater population than Washing- 

 ton's largest city? (See list on page 1393.) 



How many are larger than Washington's second largest city? 



How did Washington's banner agricultural county rank in 1910 among the 

 counties of the United States? 



What resources has this state which make possible its continued development 

 as an industrial commonwealth? As a commercial? 



What are the "weeping trees" of Washington? 



About how many inhabitants has this state who do not belong to the Caucasian 

 race? To what race or races do they belong? 



Knowing something of the mountain ranges of this state, and remembering that 

 the prevailing winds are from the west, how could you tell that the eastern section 

 must be at least semiarid? 



What important mineral product does Washington yield that no other state on 

 the Pacific coast possesses? 



What resource of another coast state has in a measure interfered with the mining 

 of this product? 



What was the chief obstacle to progress during the early years of the history of 

 this territory? 



How does this state compare in size with the other Pacific coast states? How 

 does it compare in density of population? 



How does it compare in density with the United States as a whole? 



How did its percentage of growth during a recent decade compare with that of 

 the country as a whole? 



What factors combine to give Western Washington its remarkably mild and 

 equable climate? 



Of what important product does Washington furnish over half of all that is pro- 

 duced in the United States? 



What was the "bait" that drew the earliest settlers to this region? With what 

 opposition did they meet? 



How many states of the American Union are larger? How many of these larger 

 states have a greater population? 



