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California Native Americans
100
Boise
What is Idaho
100
British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
Who is Captain James Cook.
100
The California Gold Rush began in this year.
What is 1848.
100
Name the 3 states that border California.
What are Oregon, Nevada, Arizona.
100
This Native American Tribe settled along the coast of California between what is now Malibu and Paso Robles.
Who are the Chumash Indians.
200
Albany
What is New York
200
Navigator whose exploration of the Bering Strait and Alaska prepared the way for a Russian foothold on the North American continent.
Who is Vitus Bering.
200
Gold was first found at what mill in Coloma, California?
What is Sutter's Mill.
200
This ocean borders California.
What is the Pacific.
200
This tribe settled in the Palm Springs area and is knows for their detailed oral traditions surrounding the palm plant.
Who are the Cahuilla Indians.
300
Montgomery
What is Alabama
300
A conquistador best known for his explorations of the coast of California.
Who is Juan Cabrillo.
300
Who is the first person said to have discovered gold in California?
Who is James Marshall.
300
Name the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Europe, Australia.
300
The most northern of the groups. Their way of living was a mixture of the central Californian and the northwestern Californian ways.
Who are the Shasta Indians.
400
Phoenix
What is Arizona
400
This Explorer came ashore on June 17, 1579 to repair his ship, the Golden Hind, and claimed California for England.
Who is Sir Francis Drake.
400
The California Gold Rush is considered the largest mass migration in American history, bringing this many people to California.
What is 300,000.
400
These are considered the 4 regions of California.
What are coast, central valley, mountains, and desert.
400
This group considered themselves to belong to tribelets, or small groups of villages, of 100 to 500 people.
Who are Miwok Indians.
500
Juneau
What is Alaska
500
Spanish explorer who founded San Diego, California, on Nov. 10, 1602.
Who is Sebastian Vizcaino.
500
The thousands of people that came to California to find gold were called this.
What are "Forty-Niners".
500
This mountain range runs along the eastern edge of California and runs from the Mojave Desert to the Cascade Mountain Range.
What is the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
500
A rigid, detailed code of rights and laws covered everything in life for this tribe, setting them apart from most of the other tribes in California.
What is the Yurok Tribe.
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