Geography 417

Practice Quiz 9

California for Educators

The following quiz is provided for you to check your understanding of the material you will be responsible for knowing later in the semester.

Directions: Consult your class notes, your reading assignments or on-line exercises to find the information you need to complete this quiz. Similar questions will appear on the in-class version of this quiz, but it will be worth a greater portion of your semester-end grade. Click on the radio button that corresponds to the letter next to the best answer to the question.

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Question	Answer	Letter	Questions and Answer Options
1. Prep	Answer 1	1.	Which of these methods of delivering the mail to California was not used by the US government?
		a.	Indian marathon-style runners
		b.	A series of single riders on horses.
		c.	Stages coaches
		d.	Camel Caravans
2. Prep	Answer 2	2.	Which of these challenges held up the completion of the railroad for nearly 1 year?
		a.	the great blizzard of '79
		b.	The Chinese labor strike of '78
		c.	Crossing the Yosemite valley
		d.	The summit tunnel
3. Prep	Answer 3	3.	The Chinese exclusion act was partly propelled by:
		a.	The wave of unemployment that followed the completion of the railroad.
		b.	Racist and nativist feelings among Anglo-Americans
		c.	The willingness of Chinese to work for lower wages than competing laborers.
		d.	All of these.
4. Prep	Answer 4	4.	The Constituion of 1879 permitted local and state government to:
		a.	put Chinese in ghettos
		b.	exclude Chinese from towns and cities
		c.	discourage Chinese from coming to California
		d.	All of these.
5. Prep	Answer 5	5.	Who was the visionary who conceptulized, and laid the plans for the transcontinental railroad?
		a.	Theodore Judah
		b.	Huntington P. Collins
		c.	Leland Stanford
		d.	Brigham Young
6. Review	Answer 6	6	The Los Angeles aqueduct draws water from the:
		a.	Hetch Hetchy Valley
		b.	San Joaquin Valley
		c.	Mojave Valley
		d.	Owens Valley
7. Review	Answer 7	7.	Which of these cities was not a site of oil discoveries in California?
		a.	Los Angeles
		b.	Napa and Sonoma Counties
		c.	San Joquin Valley
		d.	Santa Barbara Region
8. Review	Answer 8	8	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
		d.	Oil extraction and refining
9. Review	Answer 9	9.	When was the major "oil boom" in Southern California?
		a.	1880s
		b.	1900
		c.	1920s
		d.	1940s
10. Review	Answer 10	10.	Which of these cities became well known as "closed shop" town?
		a.	Sacramento
		b.	Los Angeles
		c.	San Francisco
		d.	San Diego

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Geography 417

Practice Quiz 9

California for Educators

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