Geography
This natural phenomenon is caused by the movement of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
Many believe that the first people in California settled during an ice age, crossing this between North America and Asia.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo took an expedition from New Spain hoping to find this through North America.
What is a waterway?
Gold was first discovered in California in this year.
What is 1848?
This is the state bird of California.
What is the California quail?
This river creates the southeastern border of California.
What is the Colorado River?
What are herds?
This people group did most of the work at the missions.
Who are the California Indians?
Early California miners were called this, so named for the year they came to California.
What are forty-niners?
California was established by explorers from this European country.
What is Spain?
Half of the grains, fruits, and vegetables of the United States are grown here.
What is the Central Valley?
This southern coastal tribe of California Indians was known for making canoes called tomals.
Who are the Chumash?
Many missions were built from this type of brick, which was made with dried clay and straw.
What is adobe?
Workers at this now-famous California historical landmark were the first to discover gold in California.
What is Sutter's Mill?
This group of people, honored for their contribution, laid the last section of the US Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
This is California's largest desert.
What is the Mojave Desert?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave this to California Indians.
What is citizenship?
This Catholic Priest founded 9 of California's 21 missions, including Mission San Buenaventura.
Who is Junipero Serra?
Mudville, originally a mining camp, eventually became this California city.
What is Stockton?
This was California's original name.
What is Alta California?
At 282 feet below sea level, this is the lowest point in the United States.
What is Death Valley?
Many California Indians willingly gave up their own land because they believed their rights would be protected living on these special areas set aside by the American government.
What are reservations?
Seeking Monterrey, which was supposed to be a safe harbor, Gaspar de Portola discovered this bay.
What is the San Francisco Bay?
This significant technological process allowed miners to dig deeper.
What is hydraulic mining?
California was admitted to the union as a free state because the northern states agreed to this.
What is return runaway slaves or what is the Fugitive Slave Act?