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18 Cards in this Set
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Sutter's Mill was important to the gold miners because?
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That was were people first discovered gold.
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Why was it that when California became a state ranchos were being broken up and sold when ?
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It was because they couldn't prove the land was theres.
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How did most of the forty-niners reach California?
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Most traveled overland or ship.
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Why was life so hard in the mining camps?
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It was hard because little food and medicine.
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What was the issue that confronted California becoming a state?
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The issue was slavery.
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How does a free enterprise economy help entrepreneurs?
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It help entrepreneurs start and run there own business.
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What did the delegates at the Monterey Convention decide on doing?
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They decided to make California a registered state.
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Why di some of the miners have to pay high prices?
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They had to pay high prices because the demand for something was higher than the supply of it.
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Why did California's population grow quickly?
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The Gold Rush started.
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What groups of peole faced discrimination.
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Californio's, Native Californians, Mexicans,Africans, and Chinese.
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Who wrote the constition of 1848?
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The delegates of the Monterey Convention.
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Why was The Compromise of 1850 reached for?
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To keep the power of the free states and slave states equal.
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Did the value of gold mined between 1849 and 1850 increse or decrese?
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increase.
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Waht year was the most gold mined?
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1853.
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The value of gold mined in 1849 about?
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$25 million.
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The compromise that helped California become a state was that....?
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California could become a free sate , but anyone helping slaves run away from their owners would be punished.
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Hydraulic mining helped miners find more gold but it caused what?
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Rivers and streams to flood, washed away tons of soil into the rivers and streams, and huge amounts of water.
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The value of gold mined in 1849, 1850,1851 was about
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125 million.
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