Trails to California

What is an area of land into which settlers start moving?

• frontier

• trapper

• pioneer

• Alta California

What frontier were explorers like John C. Fremont and Richard Henry Dana exploring?

• New Spain

• Sierra Nevada

• Alta California

• Baja California

What is the term for someone who hunts animals for their fur?

• trapper

• pioneer

• explorer

• hunter

Who was the first American to reach Alta California by land?

• Jebediah Strong Smith

• John C. Fremont

• James Beckworth

• John Sutter

What country was Alta California a part of in the 1820s?

• United States

• Spain

• Mexico

• It was independent

What mountain range did pioneers have to cross to get to Alta California by land?

• Sierra Nevada

• Coastal Mountain Range

• Appalachians

• There were no mountains

What party spent 4 months trapped in the snow of the Sierra Nevada?

• Beckworth Party

• Donner Party

• Pioneer Party

• Bidwell-Bartleson Party

What did John Sutter call his land where Sacramento is today?

• New Switzerland

• Sacramento

• Sutter's Fort

• New Helvetia

Pio Pico wanted the American pioneers to become what?

• Mexican citizens

• American citizens

• legal residents

• Spanish citizens

What were Mexican leaders worried about in Alta California?

• The American pioneers would want their own state

• The American pioneers would want to become Mexican citizens

• Wealthy rancheros would take over the government

• the United States might want to take over Alta California