Social Studies Unit 3
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- 1.What were the three routes travelers took to California?
- A.
Overland
- B.
Sailing around Cape Horn
- C.
Sailing to Panama, going through, and taking another ship on the Pacific side
- D.
All of the above
- 2.Who built Fort Ross and what was it used for?
- 3.Sutter's fort was built by whom?
- A.
Pio Pico
- B.
John Sutter
- C.
James Marshall
- D.
Biddy Mason
- 4.Why did Sutter build a fort?
- A.
To help California gain statehood
- B.
To sell supplies
- C.
To trade with California Indians
- D.
To protect pioneers
- 5.Russian settlers came to California in the early 1800's because they wanted to _______.
- A.
Set up farms.
- B.
Explore.
- C.
Trap sea otter.
- 6.American settlers migrated west in the early 1800's because _____________.
- A.
They wanted to find gold.
- B.
The United States government paid for their trip.
- C.
Of World War I.
- D.
The United States was expanding.
- 7.Who was Louise Clapp?
- A.
The first governor in the state of California.
- B.
Was part of the first wagon train to come to California from Missouri.
- C.
Wrote letters that described life in a mining town.
- D.
African American scout who led settlers West.
- 8.Who made up maps for the U.S. government?
- A.
Pio Pico
- B.
John Bidwell
- C.
James Marshall
- D.
John C. Fremont
- 9.Who became governor of California?
- A.
John Bidwell
- B.
Pio Pico
- C.
John C. Fremont
- D.
James Beckwourth
- E.
James Marshall
- 10.Who was among the first of the American settlers to arrive in California?
- A.
Pio Pico
- B.
John C. Fremont
- C.
John Bidwell
- 11.What did California do after becoming a state?
- A.
They voted for the Bear Flag Revolt.
- B.
They elected representatives to Congress.
- C.
They fought in the Mexican-American War.
- 12.As a result of the Gold Rush, a mill was built in Coloma, California. True or False?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Where did John Sutter choose to build his fort?
- A.
San Francisco
- B.
Near the Sacramento and American Rivers
- C.
Irvine
- D.
Death Valley
- 14.Where and when was gold discovered in California?
- A.
1800 in Sacramento on land belonging to John Sutter.
- B.
1842 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
- C.
1849 on land that belonged to John Sutter.
- D.
1849 in Shirt-tail Camp
- 15.What happened to California as a result of the Mexican-American War?
- A.
California became part of Mexico.
- B.
California was no longer part of Mexico.
- C.
California became part of the United States.
- D.
Answers B and C
- 16.The bear flag revolt was an uprising by Americans against Mexico because they wanted California to become an independent ___________________.
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