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Lecture Prep |
1. |
Which of these groups of pioneers first crossed through the
Donner Pass? |
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a. |
McClellan Party |
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b. |
Stanford Party |
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c. |
Stevens party |
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Answer 1:
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d. |
Donner Party |
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Lecture Prep |
2. |
What was the main factor in the extinction of the California
Grizzly Bear? |
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a. |
Climate change since 1700 |
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b. |
parasitic infection |
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c. |
pesticide poisoning (DDT) |
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Answer 2:
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d. |
over-hunting |
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Lecture Prep |
3. |
Which of these persons was the leader of the Modoc Indians in
their stand against the U.S. Army in 1870s? |
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a. |
Geronimo |
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b. |
Captain Jack |
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c. |
Blue Jacket |
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Answer 3:
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d. |
Chief Joseph |
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Lecture Prep |
4. |
Which of the following stand as good reasons to secularize
the missions? |
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a. |
They were not supposed to be permanent anyway. |
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b. |
Their large landholdings interfered with the proper
functioning of the capitalist economy. |
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c. |
They essentially denied Indians equal rights, which were
assured under the Mexican Constitution. |
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Answer 4:
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d. |
All of these. |
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Lecture Prep |
5. |
Where is the location of this painting in this link:
PAINTING.
Hint: You'll have to read and look through the pictures in on-line section
about Mexican Era California. |
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a. |
The Salinas Valley |
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b. |
The Great Central Valley |
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c. |
Owens Valley |
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Answer 5:
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d. |
San Fernando Valley |
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Lecture Prep |
6 |
According to the on-line history of Caliornia, the large
rancho operated much like a: |
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Feudal colony |
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b. |
Slave Plantation in the US South. |
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c. |
Mission, from the Spanish period |
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Answer 6:
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d. |
modern agricultural 'plantation' like you might find in
California today. |
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Quiz
Practice |
7. |
Indians living in this part of the state may have been more
warlike because they were farmers: |
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a. |
Near the San Francisco Bay |
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b. |
Near the Colorado River and low deserts |
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c. |
In the L.A. Basin |
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Answer 7:
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d. |
In the Modoc Plateau |
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Quiz Practice |
8 |
How would you characterize the diversity of Indian languages
spoken in California? |
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a. |
1000's of unrelated languages in a jig-saw puzzle
distribution |
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b. |
Hundreds of languages in a handful of language families |
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c. |
A dozen or so languages in four language families |
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Answer 8:
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d. |
Most of the tribes spoke a variant of the Miwok family of
languages. |
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Quiz
Practice |
9. |
Why did most California Indians use acorns for their staple
item in their diet? |
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a. |
Acorns have a lot of calories |
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b. |
Acorns were abundant |
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c. |
Acorns were easy to store |
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Answer 9:
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d. |
All of these |
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Quiz
Practice |
10. |
Which of these stands as a strong causal reason for the great
linguistic diversity in California? |
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a. |
constant warfare among the tribes |
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b. |
the constant migration of the tribes |
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c. |
the variety of physical environments |
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Answer 10:
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d. |
there was not very great linguistic diversity among the
tribes of California. |
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Quiz
Practice |
11. |
Which of these tribes people would you meet if you could
travel back in time to the 1600s in Los Angeles? |
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a. |
Chumash |
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b. |
Apache |
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c. |
Paiute |
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Answer 11:
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d. |
Tongva |
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Quiz
Practice |
12. |
If you were to asks an Indian what "tribe" she belonged to in
1800, she would have probably said: |
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I'm a Chumash or Miwok |
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b. |
I'm just Indian, we don't think of ourselves as separate from
one another simply because we speak mulitple languages. |
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c. |
I'm in tribe X, but there are many smaller sub-tribes within
that group and I belong to one of those. |
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d. |
Most Indians would not have thought of themselves as
belonging to a tribe of any sort, just their immediate family. |
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Quiz
Practice |
13. |
The male Indians were least likely to be found doing
________, and therefore may have been less happy in the Mission setting than
his female counterpart. |
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a. |
agricultural activities (like processing food). |
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b. |
religious activities |
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c. |
crafts and art activities |
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Answer 13:
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d. |
hunting and fishing activities |
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Quiz
Practice |
14. |
According to lecture, there was little warfare among the
California indian tribes because: |
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their economies worked well together and most groups were
well fed, housed, etc. |
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b. |
their religion was very strongly anti-war. |
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c. |
they did not have the proper equipment for warfare like their
counterparts east of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Answer 14:
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d. |
They did have wars, very many bloody wars. |
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Quiz
Practice |
15. |
According to lecture, one of the reasons California indians
are so poorly understood stems from: |
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The lack of reliable written accounts of their lives from
European sources. |
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b. |
Their demise by disease was rapid and largely complete by the
time Americans arrived. |
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c. |
Since they were not war-like, they have been replaced in
American popular culture by Indian groups that fought more against Americans
on the Great Plains. |
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Answer 15:
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d. |
All of these were cited in class. |
