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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Mexican War for Independence

This person gave a speech in 1810 that marked the beginning of the Mexican War for Independence.

$100 Answer from Mexican War for Independence

Who is Miguel Hidalgo?

$200 Question from Mexican War for Independence

The Mexican Government did this for the Californian Indians.

$200 Answer from Mexican War for Independence

What is they let them become Mexican citizens?

$300 Question from Mexican War for Independence

Spain had prevented this, but Mexico did this to help build its economy.

$300 Answer from Mexican War for Independence

What is allow trade with other countries?

$400 Question from Mexican War for Independence

This is what Californian Indians found when they returned to their villages.

$400 Answer from Mexican War for Independence

What is they found their land had been given away to settlers?

$500 Question from Mexican War for Independence

This is the year Mexico won independence from Spain.

$500 Answer from Mexican War for Independence

What is 1821?

$100 Question from The Growth of Ranchos

The way cattle and horses first came to California.

$100 Answer from The Growth of Ranchos

What is they were brought from Spain?

$200 Question from The Growth of Ranchos

This is how the Mexican government got people to settle in California.

$200 Answer from The Growth of Ranchos

What are land grants?

$300 Question from The Growth of Ranchos

You needed these two items to get a land grant.

$300 Answer from The Growth of Ranchos

What are a letter and a diseno?

$400 Question from The Growth of Ranchos

Indians received these three items for their work on the ranchos.

$400 Answer from The Growth of Ranchos

What are clothes, food, and shelter?

$500 Question from The Growth of Ranchos

This was the reason the Mexican government only gave land grants to people who were Mexican citizens.

$500 Answer from The Growth of Ranchos

What is they wanted only people who had ties to Mexico to own land and settle in California?

$100 Question from Life in Mexican California

The name of both the female and the male owners of ranchos.

$100 Answer from Life in Mexican California

What are rancheras and rancheros?

$200 Question from Life in Mexican California

One of the reasons the Mexican government wanted to close the missions.

$200 Answer from Life in Mexican California

The missions had grown powerful; the missions reminded people of Spanish rule; people were killed in revolts on the missions; the government wanted to get control of the mission lands.

$300 Question from Life in Mexican California

These were two of the products, made from cattle that traders from the United States wanted from the California ranchos.

$300 Answer from Life in Mexican California

What are cattle hides and tallow?

$400 Question from Life in Mexican California

The Spanish name for the mayor of a pueblo.

$400 Answer from Life in Mexican California

What is alcalde?

$500 Question from Life in Mexican California

The reason ranchos needed to be self-sufficient.

$500 Answer from Life in Mexican California

What is the nearest pueblo was more than a day’s ride away?

$100 Question from Vocabulary Part 1

To trade one kind of good for another.

$100 Answer from Vocabulary Part 1

What is barter?

$200 Question from Vocabulary Part 1

An open square at the center of a pueblo.

$200 Answer from Vocabulary Part 1

What is plaza?

$300 Question from Vocabulary Part 1

The way people in a state, a region, or a country use resources to meet their needs.

$300 Answer from Vocabulary Part 1

What is economy?

$400 Question from Vocabulary Part 1

An activity that someone does for others for pay.

$400 Answer from Vocabulary Part 1

What is a service?

$500 Question from Vocabulary Part 1

A group of people who live in the same place and have many things in common.

$500 Answer from Vocabulary Part 1

What is a society?

$100 Question from Vocabulary Part 2

A name that the Spanish-speaking people of Alta California called themselves.

$100 Answer from Vocabulary Part 2

What are Californios?

$200 Question from Vocabulary Part 2

The Spanish name for cowhand.

$200 Answer from Vocabulary Part 2

What is a vaquero?

$300 Question from Vocabulary Part 2

A person of Spanish background who had been born in New Spain.

$300 Answer from Vocabulary Part 2

What is a Creole?

$400 Question from Vocabulary Part 2

Being able to produce everything that is needed.

$400 Answer from Vocabulary Part 2

What is self-sufficient?

$500 Question from Vocabulary Part 2

The Spanish name for a large estate, or house, built on ranchos.

$500 Answer from Vocabulary Part 2

What is a hacienda?

Final Jeopardy

This is the name of Miguel Hidalgo’s famous speech.

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is the Grito de Dolores or the Cry of Dolores?