On Guide 1
In the 1840s, many Americans were settling here.
100 Bonus Points: What is the Mrs. Audi's favorite animal?
California
Elephant
When the Donner Party got stranded, they ate this to stay alive.
100 Bonus Points: What is Mrs. Audi's favorite food?
The bodies of dead people
Any chips and dip
The name for the thousands of Americans flooding to California looking for God.
100 Bonus Points: What is Mrs. Audi's favorite color?
The Gold Rush
Yellow
The destination of many American settlers in 1840s.
100 Bonus Points: What is Mrs. Audi's favorite candy?
California
Sour Patch Kids
The gold seekers who came to California were called this.
200 Bonus Points: Tell me why they are called this.
The 49ers.
They are called this because of the year, 1849.
The senator who came up with the Compromise of 1850.
Henry Clay
A group of 87 settlers going to California in 1846
The Donner Party
Americans passed through this on their way to California.
Wilderness
Gold was discovered here in 1848
Sutter's Mill, California
The belief that eventual domination of the entire continent by the American people was both inevitable and justifiable was called this.
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the USA was destined to settle the entire continent.
Manifest Destiny
The mountains the Donner Party got stuck in.
Sierra Nevada Mountians
Jim Marshell
Admitting California to the Union as a free state would upset the balance created by what.
400 Bonus Points: Explain what balance would be upset.
The Missouri Compromise
Vocabulary word that means: Something that is going to happen in the future.
Destiny
Vocabulary word: Obvious; plain for everybody to see.
Manifest
This group of people was upset by the admission of California to the Union.
The Southerners
Explain what the Compromise of 1850 was.
- Allowed California as a free state
-Created stricter laws for catching slaves
-Allowed other territories taken from Mexico the decide fir themselves if they wanted slavery.
The Donner Party began their journey here.
Independence, Missouri
The Treaty which gave western lands to the United States of America.
The Guadalupe Hidalgo