Unit 3

All of the following statements refer to "manifest destiny" EXCEPT:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"

What does "Eureka" on the California state flag mean?

"I have found it"

After the Mexican American War, how much did the United States pay Mexico?

$15 million

Which of the following descriptions of California's founding fathers is true?

1/2 were under the age of thirty-five

The Mexican American War lasted from

1846-1848

All of the following are characteristics of placer gold EXCEPT:

Geographically Free

Most of the workers hired by John Sutter to build his saw mill were

Indians and Mormons

What was the significance of the Terry-Broderick duel?

It was a sign of the issues that would eventually break apart the Union

The president of the United States during the Mexican American War was

James K. Polk

Identify the man credited with discovering the gold on the morning of January 24, 1848

James Marshall

The arrival of women to California brought all of the following EXCEPT:

Law and order

What contribution did the Mormons bring to California in 1847?

Much needed manual skills

Why didn't California become an American territory immediately after the singing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Northern and Southern states argued over the status of slavery in California

All of the following differentiate a Forty-niner from non-miners EXCEPT:

Only Anglo Saxon

All of the following are accurate characteristics of an Anglo 49er EXCEPT:

Opposed "anti-collie" clubs that formed in mining towns

Evaluate and select the source the was MOST creditable to the public concerning the rumors of the gold discovery in California

President James K Polk's adress to Congress about the gold discovery

Identify the characteristic in the state constitution peculiar to California's Spanish history

Property rights for women

All of the following were effects of the gold rush EXCEPT:

Racial tolerance

All of the following groups of people had mining experience EXCEPT:

Russians

Why is the goddess Minerva on the California state seal?

She sprung fully formed and functioning form Jupiter's head, like California from a Mexican territory to a state

Josiah Royce argued that the gold rush was a(n)

Social and moral event

Historians compare gold seekers to

Soldiers in a foreign land

Identify the two official languages of the state of California at its founding

Spanish and English

In 1845, Mexico broke off relations with the United States because

Texas was admitted to the Union

Clarify the main reason 49ers were opposed to slave owners using slave labor in the gold fields

The 49ers felt slave labor was unfair competition

Identify the characteristic of the Chinese miners that most angered the American miners

The Chinese found success in abandoned mines

All of the following contributed to the causes of the Mexican-American War EXCEPT:

The Mexican claim that the Rio Grande was the border between Mexico and Texas

Which of the following is NOT an example of a genocide?

The Newtown elementary school shooting

Mexico claimed that its border with Texas was

The Nueces River

What did the delegates to the constitutional convention use to help them write the state constitution?

The constitutions of two other US states

Many of early buildings in San Francisco and Sacramento

Were abandoned ships

Why slavery was an acceptable practice to expand into new territories

the obvious future role of the people of the US to overspread the continent

All of the following were used to determine if Marshall's specimen was gold EXCEPT:

Bubbled when exposed to citric acid

How was California governed during the interregnum years of 1846-1850?

By a combination of military governor and alcaldes

How were California's current borders determined?

Congress would not agree to a free state as large as the original Alta California

All of the following ethnic groups in gold rush California had which of the following in common?

Could not testify in court

All of the following were ways to travel to California during the gold rush EXCEPT:

Crossing the Bering Strait

Identify which one of the following was NOT a route to the California gold rush.

Crossing the Bering Strait, traveling down through Oregon Territory

Identify the"father" of our state

Bennett Riley

Which of the following characteristics concerning the delegates to the California constitutional convention is NOT TRUE?

A large majority were native-born Californios

All of the following elements contributed to nativism and racism in gold rush California EXCEPT:

A strong democratic structure

Identify the minority group that fares better than the others during the gold rush in California

African Americans

Which ethnic group was encouraged to migrate to California during the gold rush>

African Americans

The president of Mexico during the Mexican American War was

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

When people spoke of "manifest destiny" they were referring to

The obvious future role of the people of the US to overspread the continent

What gave legitimacy to the newly established state of California?

The resignation of General Riley as military governor

All of the following were characteristic of the men of the California gold rush EXCEPT:

They firmly held onto the routines and values from back home

All of the following characteristics of the Chinese in gold rush California were true EXCEPT:

They were exempt from paying the Foreign Miner's tax

The California Indians especially hard hit by the genocidal campaigns were

Those who lived in the "mother lode"

Whose victory in the Mexican American War helped him become president?

Zachary Taylor