Lecture Prep

1.

Where does most of the water from the Central Valley Water project go?

a.

Urban homes

b.

Agriculture

c.

Industry

Answer 1:

d.

None of these

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2.

Opposition to the power of this industry helped propell the progressives to power in 1910:

a.

Citrus and other agricultural industries

b.

Railroads

c.

Shipping and dock workers

Answer 2:

d.

Oil extraction and refining

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3.

Which of these manufacturing industries led to a great jump in population and wealth in the Long Beach region?

a.

Fish canneries and fish oil production.

b.

Citrus and Fruit packing/canning

c.

Automobile manufacturing

Answer 3:

d.

Oil Refining

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4.

The Los Angeles aqueduct draws water from the:

a.

Hetch Hetchy Valley

b.

San Joaquin Valley

c.

Mojave Valley

Answer 4:

d.

Owens Valley

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5.

This newspaper owner was hotly anti-union, and his city was likewise poorly unionized:

a.

Reuf

b.

Otis

c.

Johnson

Answer 5:

d.

Mulholland

Quiz Practice

6

When was the transcontinental railroad completed?

a.

1821

b.

1850

c.

1869

Answer 6:

d.

1899

Quiz Practice

7.

The famous location where the east bound and west bound rail lines of the first transcontinental line met was in:

a.

Promontory, Utah

b.

Denver, Colorado

c.

Reno, Nevada

Answer 7:

d.

Silver Spike, Nevada

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8

What caused the big recession of the 1880s?

a.

Underemployment/ unemployment

b.

Opening of California markets to competition

c.

Unrealized profit from excessive land speculation

Answer 8:

d.

All of these.

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9.

Charley Parkhurst wore a disguise to keep a job as a stage coach driver, to hide the real identity which was:

a.

Chinese national

b.

run away slave

c.

woman, named Charlotte

Answer 9:

d.

Chumash indian warrior.

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10.

Which of these names was not among the "Big Four"?

a.

Hopkins

b.

Huntington

c.

Stanford

Answer 10:

d.

Gompers