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100
This is the year gold was found in California.
What is 1848?
100
This person was the first governor of California.
Who was Peter H. Burnett?
100
This is a town that grows rapidly from new business.
What is boomtown?
100
He was an entrepreneur who made tough denim pants.
Who was Levi Strauss?
200
This is the year Russian fur trappers built Fort Ross.
What is 1812?
200
She was a slave, but became a land owner.
Who was Biddy Mason?
200
This is a government where people elect leaders to represent them.
What is a republic?
200
1841
What year was Sutter's fort built?
300
This is the year Mexico won independence from Spain.
What is 1821?
300
She fought for rights for Chinese children to go to public school.
Who was Mary Tape?
300
This is a written plan for governing a state or country.
What is a constitution?
300
This is where gold was found.
What is the American River near Coloma?
400
This is the year California became the 31st state.
What is 1850?
400
He discovered gold in American River.
Who was James Marshall?
400
This is a person who starts a new business to make money.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
This is owning people and forcing them to work without pay.
What is slavery?
500
This is the year California delegates wrote a state constitution.
What is 1849?
500
He built a fort and mill, but later went broke.
Who was John Sutter?
500
This is a move from one place to another.
What is migrate?
500
Russian fur trappers built this.
What is Fort Ross?