Question 1

What type of job did the Irish typically do?

Accepted Answer

work in factories

Answer

mining

Answer

manual labor

Answer

transcontinental railroad

Question 2

What is the main reason people expanded west?

Accepted Answer

land

Answer

jobs

Answer

gold

Answer

religion

Question 3

Most African Americans held what type of jobs?

Accepted Answer

manual labor

Answer

mining

Answer

railroad

Answer

factories

Question 4

Where did James Marshall first find gold?

Accepted Answer

Sutter's Mill in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Answer

Mississippi River Basin

Answer

Sutter's Mill in the Rocky Mountains

Answer

foothill of the Rocky Mountains

Question 5

What year did most gold seekers move to California?

Accepted Answer

1849

Answer

1949

Answer

1948

Answer

1848

Question 6

Why did most Chinese and other immigrants decide to leave America and stop searching for gold?

Accepted Answer

the government made them pay a monthly miner's tax

Answer

they were being persecuted for their religions

Answer

Most chinese and immigrants stayed in the U.S.

Answer

their was no more gold to be found

Question 7

Which boomtown became one of California's largest cities?

Accepted Answer

San Francisco

Answer

Los Angeles

Answer

Sacramento

Answer

Compton

Question 8

In what region could you most likely find a sod house?

Accepted Answer

Great Plains

Answer

Northeast

Answer

South

Answer

West

Question 9

What state does the Mormon trail lead to ?

Accepted Answer

Utah

Answer

California

Answer

Nevada

Answer

Oregon

Question 10

The Chinese typically held which job?

Accepted Answer

railroad

Answer

manual labor

Answer

bankers

Answer

factories

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