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Yakima, Klickitat and Cascades Indians attacked the settlements in the Cascades
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During the winter settlers in Puget Sound were killed by indians.
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Colonel Edward Steptoe and one hundred sixty soldiers traveled to Colville to look into some trouble between the natives and the miners.
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The civil war broke out.
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The first public school in Northeast Wshington was founded.
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The first daily newspaper began ( Olympia's Pacific Tribune )
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The last of Wahingtons Indian wars were fought.
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The year that Washington became a state.
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Manufacturing in Washington doubled..
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Washington women finally got the right to vote.
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There were over 10,000 unemployed people in Seattle.
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Seattle voters elected John Dore as mayor.
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The Seattle art musuem was opened .
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Washingtons population had increased by 500,000
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There were several black lawyers that started in Washington.
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Both Martin Luther King and his wife Corette came and vistited Seattle.
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Seattles world fair was named 21 century took place in Seattle
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black power leader Stokley Carmicheal spoke in Seattle
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The organizing comitee basedin California, visited Washington state
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Boeing lost some federal contacts and commercial airlines.
