Choose one: A pioneer is _____________.
A. One of the first settlers of a part of a country
B. Someone who explores new places.
C. a fur trapper.
D. a kind of fort
What is: A) one of the first settlers of a part of a country.
100
To immigrate means:
A) to move from one place to another.
B) to come into another country to live.
C) to explore new regions.
D) to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast
What is B) to come into another country to live.
100
What are entrepreneurs?
A) People who work for the state government.
B) People who make money by finding gold.
C) People who move to new towns.
D) People who start new businesses with the hope of making money.
What is D) people who start new businesses with the hope of making money.
100
A fugitive is:
A) a person who tracks down others for the law.
B) a person who is enslaved by another.
C) a person who tries to escape from an authority.
D) a person who fights for something.
What is C) a person who tries to escape from an authority.
100
A republic is a form of government in which citizens:
A) elect leaders to represent them.
B) vote directly to ratify laws.
C) are governed by a king or queen.
D) approve new laws by a majority.
What is A) elect leaders to represent them.
200
When did many Mexicans move north to California?
A. after John Sutter built a fort where two rivers meet?
B. before Mexico won its independence from Spain
C. after Mexico won its independence from Spain
D. before Mexico took over the twenty one Spanish Missions.
What is C) After Mexico won it's independence from Spain.
200
The family of Pio Pico came to California:
A) after Jedediah Smith led trappers through the MOjave Desert.
B) by following a map made by John C. Fremont in the 1840s.
C) with Juan Bautista de Anza's group of Mexican pioneers in 1775.
D) after sailing around the tip of South America.
What is C) with Juan Bautista de Anza's group of Mexican pioneers in 1775.
200
The life of a miner was:
A) easy and comfortable.
B) boring and dangerous.
C) secure and well paying.
D) full of adventure.
What is B) boring and dangerous.
200
In order to gain her freedom, Biddy Mason had to:
A) Migrate
B) Escape to California.
C) Make a compromise.
D) Petition.
What is D) petition.
200
A delegate is:
A) a government official.
B) someone who attends an event.
C) a person who is chosen to speak for others.
D) a person who ratifies the Constitution.
What is C) a person who is chosen to speak for others.
300
Many Spanish missions became Mexican Settlements because:
A) Mexicans needed land to farm in California.
B) they were located near Santa Barbara and San Diego.
C) Russian settlers arrived by sea from the Northwest.
D) Sutter's Fort was built.
What is Mexicans needed land to farm in California.
300
John C. Fremont _______.
A) Sailed around Cape Horn.
B) made maps for the U.S. government.
C) was against the development of the west.
D) became governor of California.
What is made maps for the United States government.
300
Where was gold discovered in California in 1848?
A)in Coloma next to the American River.
B) in the Pacific Ocean
C) in present-day Sacramento.
D) in San Francisco.
What is A) in Coloma, next to the American River.
300
Which of these statements is NOT TRUE:
A) Mary Tape fought for her children to attend school.
B) Bernarda Ruiz was an enslaved person.
C) Biddy Mason became a landowner.
D) Helen Hunt Jackson wrote about California Indians.
What is B) Bernarda Ruiz was an enslaved person.
300
Who was Peter H. Burnett?
A)the first elected governor of California.
B) a representative of California in the U.S. Congress.
C) the man who started the Bear Flag Revolt.
D) a military governor appointed by the United States.
What is A) the first elected governor of California.
400
Choose the correct answer:
Both Fort Ross and Sutter's Fort were:
A) early Spanish missions.
B) good place for farming.
C) trading posts.
D) located near the coast.
What is C) trading posts.
400
James Beckwourth, Jedediah Smith, and John Bidwell ______
A) Came to California from Mexico.
B) led settlers west to California.
C) made maps for the U.S. government.
D) wrote reports about the West.
What is B) led settlers west to California.
400
How did the Gold Rush affect the development of boomtowns?
A) Newcomers caused the size of the towns to grow rapidly.
B) The Gold Rush made a few people rich.
C) Many people moved to California after hearing about its beauty.
D) Many people hoped to become rich quickly.
What is A) Newcomers caused the size of the towns to grow rapidly.
400
Why did Bernarda Ruiz arrange a meeting between leaders from the United States and Mexico in 1847?
A) to gain fame.
B) to try to put an end to the war between the two countries.
C) to discuss the unfair treatment of American Indians.
D) to surprise the other side with an attack.
What is B) to try to put an end to the war between the two countries.
400
What happened as a direct result of the Mexican-American War?
A) the Bear Flag Revolt began.
B) California became a territory of the United States.
C) The final draft of the California Constitution was approved.
D) Spanish explorers claimed land that later became California.
What is B) California became a territory of the United States.
500
Many of the biggest cities in California developed because they were:
A) located near the Spanish missions.
B) good places to trap sea otters
C) located near the American and Sacramento Rivers.
D) good places to farm and trade.
What is D) good places to farm and trade.
500
The people who migrated westward in the early 1800s wanted to do all of these things EXCEPT
A) find land to farm.
B) find gold
C) find people to sell their supplies to.
D) explore the western regions.
What is B) find gold.
500
Which of these things did NOT happen as a result of the Gold Rush?
A) American settlers soon outnumbered Mexicans in California.
B) People migrated west.
C) Levi strauss started a business to make and sell denim jeans.
D) Many people moved away from California.
What is D) Many people moved away from California.
500
What do Biddy Mason, Mary Tape, and Bernarda Ruiz have in common?
A) They all wrote books.
B) They all faced difficult challenges.
C) They were all enslaved people.
D) They were all fugitives.
What is B) They all faced difficult challenges.
500
In order for California to become a state, it needed to ____
A) Go to war
B) choose Sacramento as its state capital.
C) educate its citizens.
D) write a constitution.