The earliest American migrants came to California attracted by
a. Jedediah Smith's success in settling in California.
b. Richard Henry Dana's positive description of the Californios and their hospitality to foreigners.
c. the accounts published by John Bidwell and the Westerm Emigration Society.
d. all of the above.
Question 2
The economic development of Alta California differed from that of Mexico's other northern frontiers, Texas and New Mexico, due to all of the following factors except
a. its location that facilitated trade with foreign countries.
b. the relative freedom from Indian hostilities in California.
c. the plentiful supply of cheap Indian labor.
d. official encouragement from the government in Mexico of foreign settlement.