Quiz Table
Question
Answer
Letter
Questions and Answer Options
1. Prep
Answer 1
1.
What caused the big recession of the 1870s?
a.
Underemployment/ unemployment
b.
Opening of California markets to competition
c.
Unrealized profit from excessive land speculation
d.
All of these.
2. Prep
Answer 2
2.
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
d.
Chumash indian warrior.
3. Prep
Answer 3
3.
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
d.
Silver Spike, Nevada
4. Prep
Answer 4
4.
When was the transcontinental railroad completed?
a.
1821
b.
1850
c.
1869
d.
1899
5. Prep
Answer 5
5.
Which of these names was not among the "Big Four"?
a.
Hopkins
b.
Huntington
c.
Stanford
d.
Gompers
6. Review
Answer 6
6
How would you characterize the treatment of non-Anglo miners during the Gold Rush, by the Anglo-American miners?
a.
There was amazing democracy and civil rights for all in this egalitarian frontier.
b.
There were very few minorites among the miners, so their treatment is largley unknown.
c.
Foreign miners were treated poorly and their rights not respected, especially Indian miners.
d.
It was only the dark-skinned miners (Africans, Indians, South Americans) that faced discrimination.
7. Review
Answer 7
7.
Where was gold first discovered in California?
a.
Sutter's Mill on the American River
b.
Near San Francisco
c.
In Eureka! California, on the Klamath River.
d.
In Placerita Canyon, just north of Los Angeles
8. Review
Answer 8
8
Why were the Latin American miners so successful?
a.
They were experienced at gold mining
b.
They were smaller than Anglos, so they could go down in the mine shafts.
c.
They were harder workers than the Americans.
d.
All of these are true.
9. Review
Answer 9
9.
Who was Dame Shirley?
a.
A very famous prostitute/brothel operator in San Francisco
b.
The wife of Leland Stanford, who established the University
c.
A famous railroad engineer, who drove the first train to California
d.
A "Gold Rusher" whose letters to her sister became well known.
10. Review
Answer 10
10.
Which of these mining strategies used gravity and water to separate dirt from gold?
a.
Panning
b.
Rockers
c.
Sluices and Long Toms
d.
All of these
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