1. California History Kate 2009-2010 Fourth Grade

3. Its climate is cool summers and mild winters.

4. Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Oakland are this regions major cities.

6. Plants that grow here have deep roots and hold in lots of water in their stems.

7. The Joshua Tree National Parks are good places to visit.

9. Tahoe and Ridgecrest are the major cities in that region.

10. There are lots of timber and mining industries in the Mountain Region.

12. Good cities to visit are Bakersfield, Fresno, and Sacramento.

13. It has hot summers and cold winters which does not make it a good place to visit.

15. He did not really find America he found Cuba and Haidie.

16. Columbus had three ships and one was the Pinto.

18. He found San Diego, Cape San Martin, and San Miguel when he found “the new world.”

19. Cabrillo named it Alta California which means Upper California.

21. He named the bay Nova Albion which means New England.

22. Sir Drake attacked many Spanish ships which made him the first pirate.

24. He mapped the coast of New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica.

25. Cook traveled to the west coast of North America and mapped it more accurately then others

27. When he visited America he set up nine missions with more than 100 Native Americans in each!

29. When Portola arrived he set out on an expadition to Monterey.

30. Father Juan Crespi and Father Junipero Serra accompanied Portola on his journys.

32. The forts stopped Indians from leaving missions and stop other countries from getting into their land.

33. Over 100 soldiers lived in the Presidios.

35. The missionaries were protected by soldiers

37. He became very rich selling supplies to settlers that were passing through the area.

39. The fort was built to be a trading post to trade hunted otter pelt for goods.

41. He traveled over the Utah and Mojave Deserts.

42. He came to California to trap beavers for their pelts.

44. His father was white but his mother was an African American slave.

46. He traveled from Independence, Missouri to California.

48. Later, he helped in the Mexican American war.

50. 49ers came to mine for gold.

52. People came to him to buy gold mining tools and he became extremely rich.

54. He invented denim jeans for miners because they needed tougher pants for gold mining.

56. Her master brought her to CA where slavery was illegal and she petitioned for her freedom and won it.

57. After she became a nurse and bought land around LA.

59. When she found out the schools were segregated she sued the San Francisco Board of Education and a school for Chinese Americans was established.

61. They were fighting over who should be in charge of California.

62. America won and the war ended in 1848.

64. I am in fourth grade

65. I have a retainer that is pink with a picture of a cat on it.

66. I have two rabbits named willow and snowball.

67. I love animals!