Seattle History Questions

1. Seattle History Questions: 2. What are the names of the two brothers who originally migrated west and established Seattle? 3. What is Seattle named after? 4. What was Seattle’s first primary source of income? 5. Who began construction on the first stream-powered mill in the Pacific Northwest? 6. When did he begin it? 7. What does Yesler Way now occupy? 8. What was the first “Skid Row” in America? 9. What proved disastrous for the small town of Seattle? 10.What were all of the buildings made of when the Great Fire broke out? 11.On what date did the Great Fire occur? 12.How was the city rebuilt? 13.What did the rebuilding of the city do for Seattle’s economy? 14.Why did Seattle not feel as strongly the economic downturn of the 1890’s? 15.How was Seattle affected by the Klondike Gold Rush? 16.Where did Boeing find its beginnings? 17.What does Boeing manufacture? 18.Who was the founder of Boeing? 19.When was Boeing founded? 20.What designs was Boeing responsible for? 21.How many planes did Boeing turn out each month during the height of WW2? 22.What happened to Seattle when the war ended? 23.Why was the World’s Fair held in 1962? 24.What was the theme of the fair and what did it result in? 25.What did Seattle have “the worst to date” of? 26.Who founded Microsoft? 27.Where were they raised? 28.Was Microsoft originally founded in Seattle? 29.By when had Microsoft become the most profitable company in the world? 30.How many new jobs did Microsoft create in the Seattle are?

31.What does the author suggest as being the reason that the world’s largest coffee retails would make their home in Seattle? 32.What kind of “capital of the world” is Seattle? 33.What is the “anti-corporate globalization” movement’s greatest nightmare? 34.Where is the first Starbucks located? 35.How is the Starbucks Center the largest building in Seattle? 36.What has Seattle proven to be? 37.What is Seattle also referred to as? 38.What does boomed mean? 39.What does sector mean? 40.What does economic mean? 41.What does catastrophic mean? 42.What does fledgling mean? 43.What is Skid Row? 44.What does prominence mean?