Jewett Answer Key
1. Philo Jewett named Bakersfield.
2. They planned to go to Pike's Peak, Colorado.
3. They were going to search for gold.
4. They changed their plans because they met a man who had turned back.
5. They went to California instead.
6. He cared for sheep.
7. He had learned to take care of sheep when he was a boy.
8. Sheep were used for food for the miners and their wool was made into cloth for army uniforms.
9. They wanted to kill everyone who supported the United States government.
10. Solomon Jewett opened the Kern Valley Bank and loaned money to businessmen to rebuild their businesses after the fire.
11. He mined asphalt and paved the city streets.
12. Charles was wounded three times during the war.
13. Charles drowned in the Kern River trying to save two boys, Willy and Herbert.
14. Bakersfield might not have been rebuilt after the fire if Solomon Jewett had not opened the Kern Valley Bank. He was also the first person to pave the streets. The Jewett bothers helped the sheep ranching business to grow in Kem County.
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