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California History
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Geography II
100
How many missions are there in California?
What are 21?
100
How many original colonies were there?
What is 13?
100
The original capital of this state was Monterey and then later moved to Sacramento.
What is California?
100
Is the country of Venezuela in northern or southern South America?
What is northern?
100
What country owns Baja California?
What is Mexico?
200
What year did Mexico win its independence from Spain?
What is 1821?
200
Crops that are grown to be sold for profit.
What are cash crops?
200
Which is the state with the smallest land area?
What is Rhode Island?
200
Which direction would you be flying if you were traveling from San Francisco, CA to Miami, FL?
What is southeast?
200
What sea is north of Turkey?
What is the Black Sea?
300
What year did California become a state?
What is 1850?
300
The development of ________ crops attracted many colonists and was key to the success of the Virginia and other Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
300
The capital city of this state is Montgomery.
What is Alabama?
300
Which continents does the Tropic of Cancer pass through?
What are North America, Africa, and Asia?
300
Paraguay is to Bolivia as ___________ is to Honduras.
What is Nicaragua?
400
The new technology that replaced the telegraph.
What is The Pony Express?
400
What are two ways in which enslaved people resisted their owners?
Possible answers (need two of these): What are: *working slowly *running away *saved money and bought their freedom *fighting
400
In what year did West Virginia become a state?
What is June 20th, 1863?
400
What large island nation is located off the southeast coast of Africa?
What is Madagascar?
400
What mountain range is located to the west of the Caspian Sea?
What is Caucasus?
500
What were the four men that founded the Central Pacific Railroad Company called?
What is The Big Four?
500
A place where a county government is located.
What is county seat?
500
This state was once an independent kingdom (yes, it had a king!).
What is Hawaii?
500
What large river in Brazil has its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Amazon?
500
The Tropic of Cancer is to the Tropic of Capricorn as the Arctic Circle is to the ________________.
What is the Antarctic Circle?