Father Juniperro Serra built the first mission in California here.
What is San Diego?
100
Pioneer families starting in _________________ took the Oregon Trail west to get more land, perhaps find gold, and to see what was out there.
What is Independence, Missouri?
100
This trail also started in Independence, Missouri and traveled southwest. Most of the travelers on this trail were traders. They would buy things in the East and sell them in the West and buy things in the West to sell in the East.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
100
Immigrants are people who leave one country to ______________________.
What is live in a different one and not return (like a vacation)?
100
The reason many jews came to America.
What is they were being treated poorly in Europe?
200
The Spanish wanted to convert the Indians. To convert means to "____________"
What is change their religion?
200
Pioneer families traveled the Oregon Trail in __________ so that they weren't alone in the wilderness.
What are wagon trains?
200
Cowboys traveled on this trail herding cattle.
What is the Old Chisholm Trail?
200
Immigrants from Asia came to this island in San Francisco, CA.
What is Angel Island?
200
The reason some Americans excluded Asian immigrants?
What is they looked different and they were taking American jobs?
300
The Spanish built many ___________ up and down the coast of California. Here they lived and worked, taught the Indians their religion, and prayed. There was also a place where soldiers stayed to protect the people living there.
What are missions?
300
Tell me 3 things that made the trip out west so difficult.
What is sickness/disease, unpredicatble weather/terrain, lack of clean water and fresh food, accidents, and unfriendly Indians.
300
The Old Chisolm Trail started in __________________ and ended in Abilene, Kansas.
What is San Antonio, Texas?
300
Angel Island was called "an island of sadness" because some Chinese who came there were kept out, or sent back to China. A word that means "to keep out" is ___________.
What is exclude?
300
A reason that most people wanted to go to California.
What is to find gold?
400
The most important building in the mission was the __________.
What is the church?
400
A mountain ___________ is a low point in the mountains that is usually the safest way to get to the other side.
What is a pass?
400
This town stopped being a busy trading center in the 1870's because the cattle that were herded there got a disease, people became unfriendly to the cowboys, and the railroad no longer stopped there. It went further west.
What is Abilene, Kansas?
400
Europeans coming to America had to go to this island in New York City, NY before they could enter the country. It was called an "island of hope."
What is Ellis Island?
400
The name of the road up and down the California coast that connects all the missions. It's still there today.
What is El Camino Real?
500
The culture of New Spain (which was the name of the lands the Spanish owned in North and South America) was a mix of what two cultures?
What are Spanish and Indian?
500
The Oregon Trail led to a fork in the road in Idaho. Pioneer families could either travel northwest to Oregon or southwest to ___________.
What is California?
500
The population of Abilene, Kansas grew because of the beef industry and the fact that the railroad stopped there. The population means the number of ___________.
What is people living in a place?
500
Who were the two biggest groups of Europeans that came to Ellis Island in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Who are Jews and Italian men?
500
Give me 3 reasons that the Spanish wanted to start colonies in the Americas?
What is to gain power/wealth for the king and country of Spain, to find gold, and to convert the Indians?