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Friday, July 1, 2016

Unit 3, Lesson 4: How did women help California grow?

Unit 3, Lesson 4 How did women help California grow? page 81


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1. Yes, women traveling to California face the same challenges as men.
2. Women traveled west because their husbands wanted to mine for gold.
3. No, many women didn't mined for gold.
4. Yes, women ran boarding houses.
5. Bernarda Ruiz lived in Santa Barbara during a time when Mexico was at war with the United States.
6. Bernarda Ruiz arranged a peaace meeting between leaders from the U.S. and Mexico.
7. Helen Hunt Jackson thought the treatment of American Indians was unfair.
8. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote a popular novel in 1884.
9. Mary Tape's daughter was not allowed to attend public school because she was Chinese American.
10. The Compromise of 1850 said that California would be a free state, which would not allow slavery.
11. Bridget "Biddy" Mason was born in 1818.
12. Bridget "Biddy" Mason's owner took her to California in 1851.
13. Free states had to obey fugitive slave laws.
14. The laws said that enslaved people who were fugitives must be captured and returned to their owners.
15. Biddy Mason lived in Los Angeles.
16. Biddy Mason became a nurse.
17. Biddy Mason became the first African American women in Los Angeles to own property.
18. Yes, Biddy Mason was known as "Auntie Mason" and "Grandma Mason."

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