California becomes a State: Ch. 6 SS 4th grade Harcourt Brace
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- Q 1/24Score 0____________ is important because it is where gold was discovered.29Los AngelesSutter's fortSacramentoColoma
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- Q1____________ is important because it is where gold was discovered.Los AngelesSutter's fortSacramentoColoma30s
- Q2The fastest way to reach California from the eastern United States at the start of the Gold Rush was by.........Locamotive TrainWagon TrainSailing around Cape Hornship to the Isthmus of Panama, across it, and by ship up the Pacific Coast30s
- Q3A miner usually showed where his or her claim was by........Saying "Eureka"Hiring a real estate agentpainting the ground around it.Hammering wooden stakes into the ground around it.30s
- Q4What described the high prices during the gold rush?InflationEurekaHorn SpoonDeflation30s
- Q5Women became successful during the gold rush by opening what three things?hotels, restaurants, and laundriesdaycare, plumbing, and teachingbanks, law offices, and stablesgold mines, newspapers, and police officers30s
- Q6What was the name of the first newspaper in California that was owned by an African American?Mirror of the TimesMonterey MemoriesSacramento BeeSan Francisco Herald30s
- Q7The Monterey Convention was held to make sure that California had a WHAT?a mascota capitala fight song!written constitution30s
- Q8California became a state in this year.......177618501849184830s
- Q9I was the first African American to own a shoe store and helped start the first African American-owned newspaper in California........Bennett RileyLevis StraussBiddy MasonMifflin Gibbs30s
- Q10I was a military governor of California who called for the Monterey convention..........Levi StraussBennett RileyPeter H. BurnettMifflin Gibbs30s
- Q11I was a business man who worked with tailor Jacob Davis to make denim pants for miners......Bennett RileyBiddy MasonLevi StraussPeter H. Burnett30s
- Q12I was the first governor of the state of California. Who am I?Biddy MasonLevi StraussBennett RileyPeter H. Burnett30s
- Q13I was a former slave who made a fortune buying land in Los Angeles and helped start a school for African American children........Mifflin GibbsBiddy MasonPeter H. BurnettBennett Riley30s
- Q14Why might a miner who traveled to California seeking gold be "Poorer in the end"?They were already very poor, so traveling to California just made them poorer.The miners had to pay for their passage to California, find and stake a claim, buy tools to work the claim, and pay high living costsEverything costs money, so they had to spend money to make money.I don't know, didn't study my study guide.30s
- Q15Why might a miner who traveled to California seeking gold be "poorer in the end"?The miners had didn't have to pay for their passage to California, were given free a claim, received free tools to work the claim, and had a low cost of living.Miners were always rich, they tripped over gold nuggets sticking out of the ground....this question isn't true.Even if they found gold, they might have to spend much of it in order to live.I don't know, didn't read this lesson30s
