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100
Fort Ross was built by the Russians as this.
What is a trading post?
100
It was difficult to get from this part of the United States to California.
What is the East Coast?
100
A fair solution to a disagreement is called this.
What is a compromise?
100
The uprising that Americans started against Mexico was called this.
What is The Bear Flag Revolt?
100
This is what you call a person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country.
What is a pioneer?
200
The Mexican-American War was won by the United States in this year.
What is 1848?
200
This is what you call a person who tries to escape from an authority.
What is a fugitive?
200
To officially ask someone to do something is this.
What is petition?
200
This man created denim pants for the miners to wear.
Who is Levi Strauss?
200
This was one of the first African American women to own property in Los Angeles.
Who is Bridget "Biddy" Mason?
300
This was the name of Helen Hunt Jackson's popular novel.
What is Ramona?
300
Sam Brannan was an entrepreneur known for this.
What is selling mining tools and supplies?
300
This was the type of transportation used to get to California.
What is horse-drawn wagon?
300
This is what you call a town that grows rapidly as a result of new business.
What is a boomtown?
300
This is a type of government that citizens elect its leaders to represent them.
What is a republic?
400
This is why Mexicans lost a lot of power in government during the Gold Rush.
What is because so many Americans were moving to California.
400
This is what John C Fremont was known for.
What is making maps?
400
This person became the last Mexcian top leader of California.
Who is Pio Pico?
400
This pioneer was famous for building this fort.
Who is John Sutter? What is Sutter's Fort?
400
Slow, boring, and even dangerous are all ways to describe this type of work.
What is panning for gold?
500
True or False? Sacramento was the only city ever considered to be California's capital.
False, it was moved several times before finally moving to Sacramento.
500
Spain controlled California under this type of government.
What is a monarchy?
500
True or False Women were never gold miners.
False, some women also mined for gold, but many more were men.
500
This person helped arrange a peace meeting between leaders from Mexico and the United States.
Who is Bernarda Ruiz?
500
This is the name of a person who tries to escape from authority.
What is a fugitive?
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