Social Studies ch 5 questions
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bear flag revolt | The Californians didn't want to be under Mexican rule, so they formed the Republic of California, which soon became part of the US after war with Mexico. They gained control of Sonoma |
| Mexican-American War | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War, granting US a large area of southwestern land, including CA |
| Gold Rush | Was a time when thousands of people rushed to CA in search of gold. A carpenter, working with James Marshall was the first to discover gold in 1848 at Sutter's Mill |
| Mexican-American War | After which war did Ca become part of the US? |
| 3 routes the forty-miners used to come to Ca during the gold rush were traveling across land by covered wagons, going thru Isthmus of Panama, or sailing around South America | What 3 routes did the fourth-niners from the US take to get to Ca? |
| Mexican miners used the same technology as the Ca Indians- their tools were baskets & blankets that trapped gold flakes | Describe technology of Mexican miners before the forty-niners came |
| They worked all day mining gold. Hardships as a gold miner were the high cost of living, lack of food in the mining camps, and not finding any gold | What did most forty-niners do to earn money? |
| She wrote letters about life in the goldfields | What did Louise Clapp do during the Gold Rush? |
| Treaty | The US and Mexico signed a ? to end the Mexican-American War |
| Hydraulic mining | Miners used ? to remove earth so they could uncover gold |
| Isthmus | A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land |
| Manifest destiny | The idea that the US should stretch across North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. President Polk supported this. |
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