Test 2

Question 0

President of the Bear Flag Republic

Answer 0

William Ide

Question 1

Gov of Mexican California at the time of the US invasion

Answer 1

Pio Pico

Question 2

Accomplishments and activities of the Bear Flag Republic

Answer 2

Need

Question 3

Leaders of the battle of San Pascual

Answer 3

American- Kearny

Mexican- Andres Pico

Question 4

Outcome of the battle of San Pascual

Answer 4

Humiliating defeat for Kearny

Question 5

California’s motto

Answer 5

Eureka

Question 6

First California city captured by the us

Answer 6

Monterey

Question 7

San Francisco’s renaming

Answer 7

Was Yerba Buena
Named San Francisco when rumors said Mariano Vallejo was going to name a city after his wife. Other city takes name Benecia, after Vallejo’s daughter

Question 8

Overall commander of us forces in ca

Answer 8

Stockton

Question 9

Dispute over leadership after conquest

Answer 9

Kearny was the military governor, but Stockton was in charge overall. Stockton turns power over to Fremont rather than Kearny. Kearny is rightful governor. Fremont is court marshalled

Question 10

California’s contribution to the civil war

Answer 10

185m in gold
Ca 500
1000s of troops
Pushed confederacy out of Arizona and New Mexico

Question 11

James Wilson Marshall

Answer 11

Discovers gold after diverting a river to run a water wheel at Sutter’s sawmill

Question 12

Simplest method of prospecting gold

Answer 12

Panning

Question 13

Sam Brannan

Answer 13

PR
Ran through streets with jar of gold
Publicized gold discovery
Bought up supplies before announcement and became rich

Question 14

49ers sex ratio

Answer 14

20 men to 1 woman

Question 15

49er nationality

Answer 15

Most foreigners were chinese

Question 16

Routes to CA

Answer 16

Overland
-- most Americans took this route
Sea, around the horn
-- most people in the world took this route
Sea, via isthmus of Central America 
-- fastest but most expensive

Question 17

Mussel Slough tragedy

Answer 17

Farmers and settlers vs southern pacific rail
Involved corporate greed and monopoly
Land issues

Question 18

State constitutional convention

Answer 18

Held in Monterey
Note:
Dispute over boundaries
Wanted to bypass territorial phase and become a state immediately

Question 19

Bear flag republic location

Answer 19

Sonoma

Question 20

Grange Movement

Answer 20

Unite farmers and settlers against corporations
Farmer clubs
Angry over high priced land and costs to transport goods

Question 21

Fillibustering

Answer 21

Going abroad to “free” unprotected land

Product of manifest destiny

Question 22

End of bear flag republic

Answer 22

Sloat takes Monterey without a fight, raises American flag over the city
Goal of bear flaggers was to make ca part of the us

Question 23

1855 number of whaling ships

Answer 23

500 visited ca

Question 24

Argonauts

Answer 24

Nickname for people who came to ca to mine gold

Question 25

City recaptured by californios

Answer 25

Los Angeles

Question 26

Modoc war leaders

Answer 26

Modoc: captain jack American: Brig General Canby

Question 27

Cahuenga capitulation

Answer 27

Andres Pico surrenders to John Fremont

Question 28

Burlingame treaty

Answer 28

Involved immigration of Chinese | Eased restrictions on immigration

Question 29

Big four second railroad

Answer 29

Southern pacific

Question 30

Thomas Starr King

Answer 30

Spoke in favor of union Worked to raise money for the sanitary commission which eventually led to the founding of the American Red Cross Organized pacific branch of sanitary commission

Question 31

Central pacific railroad

Answer 31

Started from Sacramento and went to Utah Majority of labor force was Chinese Leland Stanford was the first president

Question 32

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 32

Activist for Native American rights | Wrote Ramona

Question 33

First lighthouse in ca

Answer 33

Alcatraz

Question 34

15 passenger bill

Answer 34

Only allowed 15 Asian immigrants on any ship entering the us

Question 35

California 500

Answer 35

500 military volunteers from CA that fought under the Bear Flag Sent to battlefields in VA Participated in Gettysburg campaign

Question 36

Gov of Ca during civil war

Answer 36

Leland Stanford

Question 37

California's admission controversy

Answer 37

Would give free states majority in both house and senate

Question 38

California's capitals

Answer 38

First: San Jose Current: Sacremento

Question 39

News of Lincoln's election reached Ca via

Answer 39

Glitter pony express

Question 40

Pro-confederacy region of Ca

Answer 40

Southern

Question 41

~Senator

Answer 41

Riverboat that carried passengers from SF bay inland | Lightweight and fast, raced other riverboats

Question 42

First Civilian Governor of CA

Answer 42

Peter Burnett

Question 43

First prison

Answer 43

San quinton

Question 44

Joaquin Murrieta

Answer 44

Super bandit, Mexican Robin Hood

Question 45

Foreign navy that visits sf bay during civil war

Answer 45

Russia

Question 46

Year gold is discovered

Answer 46

1848

Question 47

Year CA becomes a state

Answer 47

1850

Question 48

Year transcontinental rail completed

Answer 48

1869

Question 49

Year Santa Fe rail reaches La

Answer 49

1887