California Becomes a State

What were the reasons so few people moved to California at first?

• gold and silver

• bears and mountain lions

• mountains and deserts

• Spanish and Mexican laws

How did most people travel to California?

• on horseback

• in covered wagons on trails

• on the new railroad

• on Russian ships in harbors

Someone who came to California in search of gold is called a __________.

• constitution

• pioneer

• forty-niner

• revolt

Why did news of statehood take weeks to reach California?

• Ships traveled slowly

• It was supposed to be a secret

• Voters needed to elect leaders

• People were fighting over slavery

The Bear Flag was raised during a ______________.

• constitution

• revolt

• forty-niner

• pioneer

What did the Russians at Colony Ross and the American mountain men hope to find in California?

• rich farmland

• gold in streams

• adobe churches

• wild animal furs

Who started the Bear Flag Revolt?

• Mexicans born in California

• Indians with homes in California

• Americans living in California

• Spanish landowners in California

A ________ is an early settler.

• constitution

• forty-niner

• pioneer

• revolt

What event brought thousands of people to California in 1849?

• a war in Europe and Asia

• opening the Panama Canal

• a discovery at Sutter's Mill

• building a road along the coast

What did the people who started the Bear Flag Revolt want?

• their own government

• the right to hunt animals

• more land for their farms

• statehood as part of Mexico