What do you know?
Someone who cam to California in search of gold is called a
forty-niner
Californians wrote this. It did not allow slavery.
What is a constitution?
In covered wagons on trails
How did most people travel to California?
This is the word for an early settler.
What is a pioneer?
The Bear Flag was raised during one of these?
What is a revolt?
Americans living in California who did not want to be ruled by Mexico.
Who started the Bear Flag revolt?
What were the Russians at Fort Ross hoping to find?
Wild animals to hunt for their pelts.
What were the reasons so few people moved to California at first?
The mountains and deserts
gold was discovered here.
What was discovered at Sutter's Mill?
What brought thousands of people to California in 1849?
Why did the news of statehood takes weeks to reach California?
People were fighting back east over slavery.
Why were the people who came to California during the Gold Rush called forty-niners?
They came to California in 1849.