Beacause they felt like it.
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this word starts with an m it is the name of the state containing the location where the settlers landed and lived
No US president lived in Washington state. Herbert Hoover lived in Oregon as a boy.
The first settlers were Native Americans about 4000 years ago
In 1773 James Oglethorpe brought the first English settlers to what state?
Washington state is named After George Washington the first President of the USThe state of Washington is named after George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Rival American and British settlers and conflicting territorial claims threatened war in the early 1840s. In 1846, a treaty was signed with Great Britain creating the 49th parallel as the border between Washington and Canada. By 1850, more than 1,000 people lived in Washington. This led to the creation of the Washington Territory in 1853.
All of the states in Australia are first settled by English settlers in one form or another - either as convicts, military or free settlers. New South Wales was the first state to be settled.
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The first settlers in the Southeast United States arrived from Spain. Many of them settled in what now is the state of Florida.
The first settlers in the Southeast United States arrived from Spain. Many of them settled in what now is the state of Florida.
Bruno De Heceta, a Spanish captain, was the first european to discover the state of Washington.