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chapter 12
lesson 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who was cali controlled by before the Maxican American war | Mexico |
| what was the cali population was mostly made up | Mexicans and native Americans |
| what brought settlers to cali | gold |
| mexican officials gave what Swiss immigrant permission to found a colony | swiss immigrant john sutter |
| why did the colony become popular for immigrants | rest stop |
| who was the group of early settlers traveling to cali that got lost in Sierra Nevada during snows and lost many to starvation | donner party |
| where was gold discovered at in 1848 | sutters mill |
| the 80k gold seekers came to cali in 1849 were called what | forty-niners |
| what is the process to search for golds along backs of streams or in surface mines | prospect |
| who used pans to wash gold nuggets out of loss rock and gravel | placer miners |
| how much money did cali produce in gold in 1843 | 60,000,000 |
| what sprang up wherever people gathered to look for gold | mining camps |
| what cultural and background was a typical miner | young, unmarried men, 80 percent American, the rest from around the world, 5 percent immigrants were women and children |
| describe the women life in the mining camps | made money by cooking, washing, and operating boardinghouses |
| miners paid high prices for basic needs because of the huge amount of gold circulating, this caused what | more gold meant inflation |
| what did the lure of gold attract from around the world | miners |
| what did 24k Chinese men come in hopes of making | hopes of making great wealth and returning |
| what group was not welcomes by Americans that worked in gold mines, open business, and half other jobs | Chinese |
| what was placed on foreign miners in 1852 | high monthly tax |
| the legal system favored who as immigrants | Americans over immigrants |
| in 1849how many immigrants arrived in cali from chine Europe, china, and South American | 20k |
| what had a lasting impact on cali population and economy | gold rush |
| the population boom explosion made cali eligible for what | statehood |
| cali became the what number state in 1850 | 31st |
| what had negative effects on californium and native Americans | population growth |
| how did economic growth transfer cali | new businesses and industry |
| how did the completion of transcontinental railroad help econmic growth | ended isolation from the rest and the country and aided economy |
| what were the westward movement causes in the US | Gold US acquires new land in the west, Americans believe in manifest destiny, Pathfinders open trail to new territories |
| what were the westward movements effects in the US | California experiences population boom, United States trretches to Pacific, Americans travel west to settle new areas, Native Americans are forced off lands |
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