Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Juan Bautista de Anza | d. | William Becknell | b. | rancho | e. | John C. Frémont | c. | John
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built trading post in Sacramento Valley
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American army officer who traveled through California
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huge California property owned by Mexicans
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the first American trader to reach Santa Fe
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started the first settlement in San Francisco in 1776
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | forty-niner | d. | Joseph Smith | b. | California Gold Rush | e. | Brigham Young | c. | vigilantes |
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led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake
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they take the law into their own hands
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founded the Mormon church
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sought gold in California
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expanded agriculture, shipping, and trade
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Short Answer
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11.
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The New Mexico territory contained all or part of what five present-day
states?
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What was the name of the road that connected the Spanish missions in
California?
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One cause of strained relations between the U.S. and Mexico was a boundary
dispute that concerned what two rivers?
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Frederick Douglass opposed war with Mexico because he thought that the South
would bring ____ to any new territories won in the war.
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What was the name of the peace treaty that ended the Mexican War?
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What drew the first large group of Asian immigrants to America in the
mid-1800s?
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The California Gold Rush more than ____ the world’s supply of gold.
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Why did California’s request for statehood in 1850 cause a crisis in
Congress?
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Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called
their new home ____.
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The Land Law of 1851 weakened the property rights of what group of
people?
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