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Lecture Prep |
1. |
Which of these challenges held up the completion of the
railroad for nearly 1 year? |
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a. |
the great blizzard of '79 |
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b. |
The Chinese labor strike of '78 |
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c. |
Crossing the Yosemite valley |
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Answer 1:
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d. |
The summit tunnel |
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Lecture Prep |
2. |
About how long did it take for a passenger to come from the
Mississippi River to San Francisco by Stagecoach? |
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5 to 10 days |
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b. |
3 weeks |
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2 months |
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Answer 2:
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d. |
6 months |
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Lecture Prep |
3. |
What was the biggest incentive offered by the US government
to railroad companies interested in building the cross country line? |
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tax breaks and incentives |
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b. |
grants of cash |
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c. |
grants of land |
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Answer 3:
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d. |
free labor, mostly of recently freed slaves from the South. |
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Lecture Prep |
4. |
What is the lasting legacy of the Pony Express? |
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a. |
The pony express established most of the interstate highway
corridors we still use today. |
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b. |
They bred the first group of horses that are today the
ancestors of our race horses. |
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c. |
They proved that the Southern route to California was more
economical than the old San Francisco route. |
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Answer 4:
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d. |
not much, other than the romanticism. |
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Lecture Prep |
5. |
The new constitution of California, written in 1879, was: |
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A very progressive document that extended many freedoms to
Californians. |
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A super business friendly document that benefitted the
"Octopus" more than the people. |
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c. |
A racist document with multiple provisions to rid California
of Chinese. |
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Answer 5:
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d. |
A land grab document that siezed most of the former Rancho
lands from the old landed elite. |
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Quiz
Practice |
6 |
Though many miners never found fortune, others got rich
without finding an ounce of gold. How? |
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a. |
Many found silver instead |
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b. |
Mining the Miners |
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c. |
The farmland proved to be the best and quickest source of
profit. |
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Answer 6:
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d. |
"Black Gold" or oil was found in 1850 |
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Quiz
Practice |
7. |
If you were to examine census data from the Gold Rush era,
what group would you find most poorly represented (compared to today's
census). |
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Mexicans |
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b. |
Indians |
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c. |
Women |
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Answer 7:
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d. |
Chinese |
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Quiz Practice |
8 |
What ethnic group were called Keskedees by Anglo Californias
during the 1850s. |
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Hawaiians |
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b. |
Spanish |
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c. |
French |
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Answer 8:
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d. |
Irish |
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Quiz
Practice |
9. |
How would you characterize the treatment of non-Anglo miners
during the Gold Rush, by the Anglo-American miners? |
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There was amazing democracy and civil rights for all in this
egalitarian frontier. |
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b. |
There were very few minorites among the miners, so their
treatment is largley unknown. |
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c. |
Foreign miners were treated poorly and their rights not
respected, especially Indian miners. |
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Answer 9:
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d. |
It was only the dark-skinned miners (Africans, Indians, South
Americans) that faced discrimination. |
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Quiz
Practice |
10. |
What sort of government controlled the actions of miners? |
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The miners themselves formed semi-government structures |
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They largely followed the old Mexican Authorities |
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The US military was largely in charge |
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Answer 10:
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d. |
There was no government, law or order in the camps. |
