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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Questions
1. Did women traveling to California face the same challenges as men?
2. Why did the women travel west?
3. Did many women mined for gold?
4. Did women run boarding houses?
5. Who lived in Santa Barbara during a time when Mexico was at war with the United States?
6. Who arranged a peace meeting between leaders from the U.S. and Mexico?
7. Who thought the treatment of American Indians was unfair?
8. Who wrote the popular novel in 1884?
9. Whose daughter was not allowed to attend public school because she was Chinese American?
10. What did The Compromise of 1850 mean for California?
11. In what year was Bridget "Biddy" Mason born?
12. In what year did Mason's owner take her to California?
13. What did free states have to obey?
14. What were fugitive slave laws?
15. Where did Biddy Mason live?
16. What occupation did Mason do?
17. Who became the first African American women in Los Angeles to own property?
18. Was Biddy Mason known as "Auntie Mason" and "Grandma Mason"?


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