Person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country.
Who is a pioneer?
100
Led the first group of American trappers overland to California.
Who is Jedidiah Smith?
100
This event started the gold rush.
What is gold found at Sutter's Mill
100
A person who tries to escape from an authority
What is a fugitive?
100
What type of government does California have (one in which the citizens elect its leaders)
What is a republic
200
Who built Fort Ross?
Who are the Russians.
200
The African American guide who has a trail named after him.
Who is James Beckworth?
200
What they called the people who came to California looking for gold.
What are forty niners
200
Fought for the rights of the American Indians
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson
200
What happened to California as a result of the Mexican-American War?
What is California won its independence from Mexico
300
Why did the Russian settlers travel to California?
What is to trap sea otters.
300
Most ships coming from the east coast had to sail around what landform to get to California?
What is Cape Horn?
300
Sam Brannan started a new business selling supplies to gold miners, he was said to be an ....
What is an entreprenuer
300
Fought for the rights of her children to attend public school
Who is Mary Tape
300
This is the year California became a state
What is 1850?
400
Why did John Sutter build a fort where the Sacramento and American Rivers meet?
What is to sell supplies to people passing through the area.
400
Was the first American settler to arrive in California?
Who is John Bidwell
400
A town that grows rapidly as a result of new business-discovery of gold
What is a boom town
400
How did Biddy Mason become a free woman?
What is she moved to California as a slave and then petetioned to become a free person
400
What is a group of Americans who started a revolt against Mexico
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
500
Led Russian and Native Alaskan fur trappers to California to hunt sea otters.
Who is Ian Kuskov?
500
Made maps for U.S. government.
Who is John C. Fremont
500
The name of one entreprenuer who invented a type of pants that are still worn today?
Who is Levi Strauss
500
This compromise stated that California would enter the union as a free state but they would have to uphold the fugitive slave laws and return any captured slaves.