California Regions
Which region has extreme temperatures in the summer and winter?
What is the desert region
Who was responsible for most of the work at the missions, including building churches, farming, weaving blankets.
California Natives
What year was gold first discovered in California?
What is 1848
What huge event in CA led to people coming to CA?
The Gold Rush
What landform is surrounded by water on all sides?
Island
Which region hosts snow activities?
What is the Mountain region.
Why did the tribes trade with each other?
To get materials/things they didn't have/couldn't make themselves.
Where was gold first discovered in California?
What is Sutter's Mill
What was California's stance on slavery?
It wanted to be a free state
What is the highest landform?
Mountain
Which region includes most of California's farm land?
What is the Central Valley region
Who founded the first 9 missions?
Who is Junipero Serra
Who were the people that started their own businesses during the Gold Rush?
What are entreprenuers
What is the name of the document that is the plan for the government?
What is a constitution
What landform is San Francisco on?
Peninsula
Which region includes 4 bays and 2 groups of islands?
What is the Coastal region
What is the purpose of the presidios?
Forts/protection
Name three ways to get gold (what tools)?
gold pans, long tom, hydraulic mining, pick and axe
What was the name of the treaty that led to CA statehood?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the low land between two mountains or hills?
Valley
Which region has the most people living in it?
What is the Coastal region
Who was the Spanish explorer that defeated the Aztec and started conquering Mexico?
Who is Hernando Cortez
What is inflation?
When prices of goods increases because of low supply
What two countries were in a War before California became a state?
Mexico and America
what is the part of a mountain where trees stop growing?
timberline