Early people in California - famous names
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Bidwell | He lead an expedition, with help, from Missouri to CA. He stopped at Sutter's Fort and found work with John Sutter |
| How did John Bidwell make money? | Acquired a lot of land and raised cattle, wheat and other crops. |
| Who won a gold medal in Paris for his wheat product? | John Bidwell |
| What happened when Captain John C. Fremont and his 60 man expedition arrived at Sutter's Fort? | Sutter was away, and Fremont felt that Bidwell was not friendly and did not help them enough. |
| What did Fremont do after he left Sutter's Fort? | He angered Mexican authorities and then went to Oregon for a few months. |
| What did Fremont do when he returned to California? | He took over the Bear Flag Revolt. |
| Where was Mariano Vallejo held captive during the Bear Flag Revolt and Mexican-American War? | Sutter's Fort |
| What role did John Sutter take on at Sutter's Fort? | He helped many expedition groups get settled in California. |
| Who made money prospecting gold, Sutter or Bidwell? | Bidwell |
| Who was Biddy Mason? | A slave with the Smith Family in the South. |
| How did Biddy gain her freedom? | When the Smith Family tried to leave California Biddy went to the law and wrote a petition for her freedom in California, a free state. |
| How did Biddy make money? | She saved all the money she made as a nurse and a mid-wife and bought land. Some she sold at a great profit, some land she built on and collected rent from her tenants. |
| How did Biddy get the nickname, Grandma Mason? | With her money, she helped start a church and helped the homeless. |
| What is November 16th known as in California? | Biddy Mason Day |
| Who was Louise Clapp? | She was a woman who lived in a gold mining town during the gold rush? |
| What did Louise Clapp leave behind of importance? | She wrote letters to her sister Molly who live in New England. The letters describe what life was like during the Gold Rush. |
| Where was John Sutter born? | Switzerland |
| Why did Sutter leave Switzerland to come to America? | Like many Europeans of the time, he viewed America as the land of opportunity. |
| When Sutter arrived in California what did he build? | Sutter's Fort |
| What did Sutter consider to be the real wealth of California? | The land- crops such as wheat and grapes and cattle. |
| Who was the last Mexican Governor of California? | Pio Pico |
| Where was Mariano Vallejo born? | Monterey California |
| How did Vallejo end up in Sonoma County? | He worked hard as a soldier and was promoted and given Petaluma rancho. |
| What was the tension between Sutter and Vallejo? | Vallejo did not like that Sutter was helping the settlers of the West get passports without Mexican authority. |
| Why was Vallejo taken as a prisoner to Sutter's Fort? | Because he worked for the Mexican Government and the Californians wanted their freedom from Mexico. |
| Name two trailblazers to the West | Beckwourth and Smith |
| Who was Juan Cabrillo? | A Portugese explorer in service to Spain. |
| What was Cabrillo's major contribution as an explorer? | He claimed California for Spain in 1542. |
| Who was Juan Crespi? | He was a Spanish explorer whom joined Portola on the mission to occupy and settle California with missions and forts. |
| Who was Gaspar de Portola? | He was a Spanish explorer and colonial governor. He lead the expedition to start the first missions and forts in California. |
| Who was James Cook? | An English explorer, navigator and cartographer in the 1700s. |
| What area did James Cook explore on his first voyage? | South Pacific. |
| What country did James Cook claim for Britian on his first Voyage? | Australia |
| Cook became famous after his second voyage- why? | His charts of the southern Pacific Ocean were amazingly accurate. |
| What was Cook's mission on his third voyage? | To discover the famed Northwest passage. |
| On his third voyage Cook visited what set of Islands? | Hawaiian Islands, which he named Sandwich Islands. |
| Cook wanted to pass the Bering Land Straight- did he? | No |
| The Bering Land Straight proved to be impassable. What did Cook accomplish on the Northwest Coastline? | He charted most of the North American northwest coastline and determined the extent of Alaska |
| Who killed James Cook? | the Hawaiians |
| Who was Vitus Jonassen Bering? | A Danish navigator in the service of the Russian Navy. |
| What area did he discover? | Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. |
| Name two things that are named after Vitus Bering? | The Bering Straight, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Land Bridge. |
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