Social Studies Chapter 5 Test: California, Here We Come!

Why did fur trappers begin to open up new routes to California?

• to create trails for wagon trains to follow

• to find new areas that had fur animals to trap

• to stage attacks on Spanish presidios

• to gain access to trade with the Philippines

Which trailblazer led the first group of Americans overland into California?

• James Beckwourth

• Joseph Reddeford Walker

• James Ohio Pattie

• Jedediah Strong Smith

Before overland routes were established, how did most settlers travel from the United States to California?

• by wagon train

• on horseback

• by ship

• by train

From Fort Laramie, Wyoming, which trail or trails did settlers have to follow in order to reach California?

• the Oregon Trail

• the Oregon Trail and the California Trail

• the California Trail and the Old Spanish Trail

• the Old Spanish Trail

Which trail or trails ended at Los Angeles?

• the Oregon Trail

• the California Trail

• the Old Spanish Trail

• the Oregon Trail and the California Trail

"...children were crying with hunger, and the mothers were crying because they had so little to give their children." -Virginia Reed

Which group is Virginia Reed describing?

• the Donner party

• the Bartleston-Bidwell expedition

• John C. Fremont's expedition

• the families of the Bear Flaggers

What idea, popularized in the 1840's, helped build American interest in California?

• squatters' rights

• Mexican citizenship

• manifest destiny

• land grants

Who aided the rebels and helped establish the Bear Flag Republic?

• Pio Pico

• Mariano Vallejo

• Jose Castro

• John C. Fremont

Why did the Bear Flag Republic last only a short time?

• California Indians led a revolt against the Bear Flaggers.

• American warships landed at Monterey and made the Bear Flaggers part of the United States Army.

• Californio landowners refused to turn over their lands to the Bear Flaggers.

• Mexican troops arrived from Mexico to defeat the Bear Flaggers.

What happened as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Californios waged war against the United States Army.

• Californios agreed to stop fighting against the United States Army.

• California became part of the United States.

• The United States and Mexico agreed to divide California in half.