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Friday, July 1, 2016

Unit 3, Lesson 2: How and why did people travel to California?

Unit 3, Lesson 2 How and why did people travel to California? page 71


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1. The trip around Cape Horn from the east coast to the west coast took up to 8 months to complete and was about 17,000 miles.
2. The Isthmus of Panama is a narrow strip of land between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.
3. A trip from the state of Missouri to California takes 3-6 months.
4. Horse-drawn wagon from Missouri to California people had to cross rivers, mountains, and deserts.
5. 1775 Pio Pico family arrived in California.
6. Juan Bautista de Anza was the name of the group that the Pio Pico family travel with.
7. The last Mexican Governor of California was Pio Pico.
8. Jedediah Smith was the name of the first person that led the first group through Utah and the Mojave Desert.
9. 1841 was the year the first wagon train of settlers arrived in California.
10. John Bidwell was the name of the person who arrived in the first wagon train from Independence, Missouri.
11. John C. Fremont made maps for the U.S. Government in the early 1840s.
12. James Beckwourth led settlers west during the 1850s.
13. California Trail, Old Spanish Trail, and Santa Fe Trail that were famous trails leading west from Missouri in the 1850s.

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