Vocabulary
What is someone who comes from one country to live in another called?
immigrant
Who was an immigrant from Switzerland who built a settlement called New Helvetia?
John Augustas Sutter
What city today is located where Sutter's Fort was located in the 1800s?
Sacramento
How were the reasons for settlers coming to California different from those of trappers?
Trappers came to catch fur-bearing animals, and they did not stay. Settlers came to buy land.
What is a pioneer?
one of the first people to settle in a new land
Who wrote: "this is beyond all comparison the finest country and the finest climate?"
Why did John Fremont travel to the West?
He was the leader of a U.S. Army expedition to explore and map the Oregon Trail.
What do you call a group of wagons each pulled by horses or oxen?
wagon train
Who led a group of 69 men, women, and children from Missouri to California?
John Bidwell
Why did the Donner party get stuck in the Sierra Nevada?
They tried to cross in winter and got caught in a snowstorm.
Who led the Donner party on a new route from Missouri to California?
George and Jacob Donner