Monterey Convention
This military governor called for a convention in Monterey
Who was General Bennet Riley?
This document became California's plan of government.
What is the Constitution of 1849?
California became the 31st state on this date.
What is September 9, 1850?
The Land Act of 1851 required rancheros to prove this.
What is that they owned their land legally?
California's state flower.
What is the California poppy?
A person chosen to speak and act for the people who elected him or her.
What is a delegate?
Delegates decided California would be this kind of state rather than a slave state.
What is a free state?
This branch of the U.S. government had to approve California's admission.
What is Congress?
Many newcomers settled on these unmarked lands.
What are ranchos?
California's state animal.
What is the grizzly bear?
The city where delegates met to discuss California's future.
What is Monterey?
The mountain range chosen to help mark California's eastern border.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
The agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Many rancheros had to do this to pay their bills and legal costs.
What is sell their land?
This symbol is used when conducting official state business.
What is the state seal?
The gold rush brought thousands of newcomers who wanted these in California.
What are the same rights they had in the United States?
The delegates called for the creation of this statewide system.
What is a public school system?
California's first state governor.
Who was Peter H. Burnett?
Most large ranchos eventually experienced this.
What is being broken up?
State symbols represent this about a state's citizens.
What is what is important to them?
Forty-eight of these attended the Monterey Convention.
What are delegates?
In November 1849, Californians voted to do this to the constitution.
What is ratify it?
Sacramento became California's capital in this year.
What is 1854?
One reason rancheros had trouble proving ownership was that many land maps were these.
What are inaccurate hand-drawn diseños?
Before California became a state, people adopted these to represent California.
What are state symbols?