California Geography
The ocean off the west coast of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This Spanish explorer first sailed up the California Coast.
Who is Juan Cabrillo?
A religious outpost set up by the Spanish to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and expand Spain's control of California.
What is a mission?
The removal of church control of mission lands.
What is Secularization.
The name of the large mountain range that runs along California’s eastern border.
What is the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range?
The California Native Americans managed the forest in their areas by.
What is lighting control fires?
What fabled route to Asia, above North America, did Europeans search for?
A military fort.
What is a Presidio
He led Spanish colonists to independence.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo?
What is agriculture?
What is hunting and gathering.
He conquered the Aztecs and claimed what is now Mexico for Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
The missionary priest that founded the first mission in San Diego.
Who is Father Junipero Serra.
The year California became a state.
What is 1850?
The four main regions of California.
What are the Coast, Desert, Mountain, and Central Valley Regions?
A way of life shared by a group of people, including language, clothing, religious beliefs, art, and food.
What is culture?
Three European countries that were first interested in California.
Who are Spain, Russia, and England?
Negative effects of missions on Native Americans?
What are deadly diseases (smallpox), slavery, torture, loss of culture and identity, and loss of land?
The event that started a large migration of people to California.
Two reasons California was isolated and hard to get to.
What are rugged mountains, hot desert, rivers, rocky shores, and strong currents.
How the first native people arrived in California.
What is by boat and across the land bridge (Bering) on foot.
The reason it took 200 years after Spain discovered California to start colonizing it.
What are sources of water (rivers), large populations of Native Americans, and fertile soil?
The location where the two sides of the Transcontinental Railroad met.
What is Promontory Point Utah?