Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Rise Of Rancho Economy

Question 1

How did the Mexican government attract people to California?

Answer 1

My giving them land grants

Question 2

What are land grants?

Answer 2

Pieces of land given for people who come to ca

Question 3

How did a person get a land grant?

Answer 3

They drew a diseno

Question 4

What is a diseno?

Answer 4

A hand drawn map

Question 5

When the Spanish ruled California who got land grants?

Answer 5

Wealthy people

Question 6

Who could get a land grant from Mexican government?

Answer 6

1white men
2 married women
3 women Indians
4 men Indians

Question 7

Why did California’s population increase under Mexican rule?

Answer 7

Land grants

Question 8

What are ranchos?

Answer 8

Cattle ranches

Question 9

Describe what ranchos looked like?

Answer 9

Owners house
Fields of crops
Pastures for cattle and horeses

Question 10

Explain how the cattle lived on ranchos?

Answer 10

Wandered freely

Question 11

Describe the role of ranchos in California?

Answer 11

Became the center of California life and important part of economy

Question 12

How was living on a rancho like living in a small town?

Answer 12

Hundreds of people lived on ranchos

Question 13

Who lived on ranchos?

Answer 13

The rancher his or her family and rancho workers and Indian worker and Indians

Question 14

Who was pio pico?

Answer 14

A rancher

And last governor of Mexican California

Question 15

Who was Mariano Vallejo?

Answer 15

A rancher wealthy

Question 16

What was rancho Petaluma?

Answer 16

A rancho

Large rancho

Question 17

What were haciendas?

Answer 17

A main home

Question 18

Describe vallejo’s rancho’s

Answer 18

A hacienda built around an open courtyard
Large
175,000 acres

Question 19

Were all ranch owners wealthy? How did they live?

Answer 19

No

Some people lived in small houses with dirt floors

Question 20

Who still lived in pueblos?

Answer 20

Blacksmiths and saddle makers

Question 21

How did Mexican laws allowing trading help California?

Answer 21

It helped the economy

Question 22

Who was Richard Henry Dana?

Answer 22

A sailor from Boston coming to trade

Question 23

What is barter?

Answer 23

Trading

Question 24

What is tallow?

Answer 24

Animal fat

Used tallow to make candles

Question 25

What was bartered in California harbors?

Answer 25

Hides of cattle tallow

Question 26

How did people trade if there were not good harbors?

Answer 26

They sent small boats out to barter

Question 27

How did Dana describe the trading?

Answer 27

Down this height we pitched the hides… The wind took them bout plunging and rising in the air like a kite

Question 28

How did people’s opinions of California change?

Answer 28

Because They could trade with everyone

Thought of California as a place of opportunity

Question 29

Why did many of the ranchos cover large areas of land?

Answer 29

Because ca is so big

Question 30

How did trade under Mexican rule help the people of California?

Answer 30

Because they could trade with Boston and everyone,

Question 31

What was the California economy based on during the time of Mexican rule?

Answer 31

Trading

Question 32

How was fort Ross important to the californios?

Answer 32

It was a fort of the Russians and John sutter bought the bulidung

Question 33

What did californios gain by trading with United States and other countries? What did they give up?

Answer 33

They gained stuff they couldn’t get in ca

Question 34

Why do you think ranchos were set up to produce almost everything they needed?

Answer 34

People lived together for protection and everyone they needed