CA Pioneers
What is an early settler called?
What is a pioneer?
How long did the Mexican American War last?
What is 2 years?
The bear flag was raised during a ______?
What is revolt?
What event brought thousands of people to America in 1849?
What is discovery of gold at Sutter Mill?
What happened first the Gold Rush or Statehood?
What is Gold Rush?
How did most people travel to CA?
What is wagon and horse?
In _______ America declared war on Mexico.
What is 1846?
Who started the bear flag revolt?
Who are Americans living in CA?
Someone who came to California in search of gold is called a _____?
Who is a forty-niner?
What kind of government did the United States have and California want?
What is a Republic?
What were the reasons so many few people moved or traveled to CA at first?
What are mountains and deserts?
The war had started as a dispute over the border between?
What is Texas and America?
What did the people who started the Bear Flag Revolt want?
What is their own government?
Who was the first person to discover gold?
Who is James Marshall?
California wrote a _____ that did not allow slavery.
What is a constitution?
What did the Russians at Colony Ross hope to find in CA?
What is wild animal fur?
The United States and Mexico signed a peace agreement, or treaty, called the ?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
In June of 1846, a ________ spread among the Americans that the governor was planning to carry out his threat. Mexican troops would soon make them leave California.
What is a rumor?
On whose land was the first piece of gold discovered?
Why did the news of statehood take weeks to reach CA?
What are ships travel slowly?
What pioneer group was famous for their difficult freezing journey through the Sierra Nevadas on their way to CA?
Who is the Donner Party?
President _____ had another reason for going to war. He wanted to take California from Mexico and make that land part of the United States.
Who is James Polk?
First, a small group seized some horses from a Mexican army officer. Then, the rebels marched on the town of Sonoma, which they took without a fight. They captured _______ at his home in Sonoma.
Who is General Mariano Vallejo?
What is the name of the River where gold was first discovered?
What part of the first California constitution?came from Mexican law?
What is married women owning property?