The Elusive Eden Study Questions Chapter Six


1. Why did Spain begin to colonize California in 1769?
2. Who was Vitus Bering?
3. Who claimed Alaska in1741?
4. How did the Seven Years War effect Spain and Britain?
5. Who was Visitor-General José de Gálvez?
6. How did the Spanish colonization program work?
7. Why did the Franciscans gain control of the mission program in Baja and Alta California?
8. Who were Captain Gaspar de Portolá and Father Junípero Serra?
9. What was the original name of San Diego, California?
10. Why did Portolá need to search for Monterey?
11. Who was Captain Fernando Rivera?
12. Where is Mission San Carlos Borromeo located?
13. What were the first five missions?
14. Who was Captain Juan Bautiste de Anza?
15. What are gente de razón?
16. Where is Alta California?
17. Who were Fathers Serra, Lasuén, and Durán?
18. How many Presidios did the Spanish establish in California and where were they located?
19. How many pueblos did the Spanish establish in California and where were they located?
20. How diverse was the population of Spanish California?
21. What was the "Laws of the Indies?"
22. What was the economy of Spanish California based upon?
23. What crafts were the missions San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano famous for?
24. What type of foreign trade took place in Spanish California?
25. What was Fort Ross?
26. What is tallow?
27. What was education like in Spanish California?
28. What was the population of Spanish California in 1779, 1800, and 1821?
29. When did Mexico become independent from Spain?
30. How did Spanish agriculture change the ecology of California?
31. What was the "Yuma Massacre?"
32. How did the "Yuma Massacre" effect the Spanish colonization effort in California?
33. What was the de Anza Trail? Yuma
34. How did disease and horses change the California natives?
35. How did California native women suffer differently than the men?
36. What is a concubine?
37. How did corporal punishment effect the native Californians?
38. What were punitive expeditions?
39. What was impressment?
40. What happened to the Yokuts around1833?