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24 Cards in this Set
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Which group of people moved to the west to find the Northwest Passage?
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The explorers
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Which group of people moved to the west because they were inspired by the explorers' reports of finding beaver in the Rockies?
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The mountain men
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Which group of people moved to the west to convert the California Indians to Christianity?
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The Californios
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Which group of people moved to the west to learn more about the white man's ways?
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The missionaries
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Which group of people moved to the west to seek new husbands and other new opportunities?
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The pioneer women
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Which group of people moved to the west to search for a new home?
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The Mormons
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Which group of people moved to the west to find gold?
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The forty-niners
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Which group of people moved to the west because Gam Saan sounded like paradise?
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The Chinese
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What were some hardships that the explorers faced?
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Rowing upstream against the Missouri River left their hands blistered.
Mosquitoes feasted on their faces. Grizzly bears raided their camps. |
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What were some hardships that the mountain men faced?
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Trappers were attacked by fur thieves, Indians, wolves, and bears.
Disease. |
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What were some hardships that the Californios faced?
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Thousands died due to diseases brought to California.
Territory was neglected by Mexican government. Officials sent to California were unskilled and dishonest. |
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What were some hardships that the missionaries faced?
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The Rockies were steep.
Measles came west with settlers. Whitman refused to pay for the land they took for their mission. |
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What were some hardships that the pioneer women faced?
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Wagon space was limited.
Disease was spreading. Children were crushed under the wagon's wheels. |
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What were some hardships that the Mormons faced?
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The valley was a broad and barren plain.
They had to learn to survive in the dry environment. |
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What were some hardships that the forty-niners faced?
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They fought over the bounderies of their claims.
Digging for gold was hard and tedious work. Soon, the easy to find gold was gone. |
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What were some hardships that the Chinese faced?
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American miners called on the government to drive foreigners out of the goldfields.
In 1852, state legislature passed a law requiring foreign miners to pay a monthly fee. They burned the shacks of Chinese miners. |
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What were the legacies the explorers left?
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Established good relations with the western Indians.
Brought back priceless information about the west and its people. |
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What were the legacies the Californios left?
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Many Spanish names are in California (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc)
They introduced grapes, olives, and citrus fruit. |
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What were the legacies the missionaries left?
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Relatively few Indians became Christians.
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What were the legacies the pioneer women left?
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Schools, churches, libraries, literary societies, and charitable groups blossomed.
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What were the legacies the Mormons left?
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They pioneered the farming methods.
They planted faith. |
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What were the legacies the forty-niners left?
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About 250,000 people flooded into California.
Warfare and disease decreased. California had enough people to become the first state in the far west. |
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What were the legacies the Chinese left?
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They helped build the west.
They brought the arts, tastes, scents, and sounds of one of the world's oldest and richest cultures. |
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What were the legacies the mountain men left?
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They left their personal journals.
They explored most of the west. Their testing posts turned into supply stations for settlers moving west. |
