Geography
Death valley is located in this region.
What is the desert?
Because of cold winter weather, the indigenous groups located in this region built warm and sturdy homes.
Who are the Mountain People?
About 21 of these were built along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma.
What are missions?
This Native American women helped Lewis and Clark explore the land bought from the Louisiana Purchase deal.
Who is Sacagawea?
This famous photographer captured history in the 1930s, photographing the great depression, shipyards, and the dust bowl.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This region is known for its agricultural production.
What is the central valley?
This indigenous group built cone shaped homes, covered in tule mats.
Who are the Yokuts?
This Yokut leader lead thousands to fight againts European Missions. He was never captured.
Who is Estanislao?
The US and Mexico argued about this once Texas won its independence, thus causing the Mexican-American War.
What was the border dispute?
This nickname/figure created by the US government represents women working in the shipyards.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Tallest mountain in California.
What is Mt. Whitney?
This indigenous group used snares to trap squirrels, ducks, rabbits, mice, rats, and quail. They also hunted deer, antelope, and mountain sheep.
Who are the Cahuilla?
The 3 G's that explain the motivation of European Explorers.
what is God, Glory, and Gold?
Between 1841 and 1860, 300,000 people traveled west from Missouri to Oregon Country. They traveled along this route.
What is the Oregon Trail?
After this event, the US chose to start sending Japanese-Americans to incarceration camps for fear of spies.
What was Pearl Harbor?
This coastal city has a population of about 900,000.
What is San Francisco?
This indigenous group were excellent basket makers. They also made valuable shell beads sometimes used as money!
Who are the Chumash?
This explorer described Monterey Bay incorrectly, which misled many explorers that followed him.
Who is Sebastian Vizcaino?
This work of art shows an angel traveling westward. She holds a book in one arm, and a telegraph wire in another.
What is American Progress?
This LGBTQ+ protest happened 3 years before Stonewall, changing the course of LGBTQ history.
What was the Compton Cafeteria Riot?
These imaginary lines are essential for navigating and pinpointing locations on Earth.
What is latitude and longitude?
The Maidu were skilled at crafting these with logs and plant fiber.
What are canoes?
These people came to California to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.
Who were Spanish Priests?
This treaty ended the Mexican American war in _____ year.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)?
This California Act had the goal to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
What is the Global Warming Solutions Act?