Irvine Vocabulary Quiz 1

Land given by the government

• Land grant

• missionary

• boomtown

• mission

A person who travels to places to learn more about them

• teacher

• explorer

• missionary

• doctor

The moving of goods, people, or animals from one place to another

• economy

• transportation

• boomtown

• telegraph

The system of consuming and producing goods

• transportation

• telegraph

• boomtown

• economy

a settlement set up by a religious group to teach their religion and other ways of life

• boomtown

• mission

• land grant

• telegraph

The war between Mexico and the US, which defined California as an American territory

• Mexican -American War

• Mexican War of Independence

• Gold Rush

• Native American

American Indians which were the first people to live in California

• Missionary

• explorer

• Gold Rush

• Native American

A large wagon with a curving canvas top, used for travel during the 1800's

• transportation

• covered wagon

• land grant

• boomtown

Useful materials that come from the Earth

• mission

• telegraph

• boomtown

• natural resources

A machine that sends signals along wires, using electricity

• telegraph

• natural resources

• economy

• transportation