Extra Questions for Test 2

Question 1

Mexican-Californians or Californios suffered from the earliest discrimination from the Americans coming to California after 1848. Why?

Answer 1

Right after the war, emotions were still strong. Hispanics were competing with U.S. newcomers for gold. Racial prejudices were widespread.

Question 2

Did very many Chinese immigrants get to return to China after coming to California in the 19th century?

Answer 2

No.

Question 3

How did foreign miners react to the first high foreign miner’s tax?

Answer 3

Many left the state.

Question 4

What did Californios have to do to protect their land titles from American Californian squatters? How well did the Californios succeed?

Answer 4

???

Question 5

What did Ishi’s acculturation demonstrate about then-prevalent theories on the supposed innate inferiority of “primitive” races?

Answer 5

That those theories were false.

Question 6

Because Chinese-Americans left few records in English, historians have relied heavily on census data to study them. While the Chinese (like everyone else in CA) mainly engaged in mining during the gold rush era, what did the census data show after the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act about (1) where the Chinese lived, and (2) their social mobility patterns by the early 1900’s?

Answer 6

Urban areas?

There was almost no chance for upward social mobility.

Question 7

Were African-Americans segregated in 19th century San Francisco? What about after the large WWII-era migrations from the South into CA?

Answer 7

No, not originally. After the migrations they were.

Question 8

Were Protestant Christian churches established quickly by Americans coming to California during the gold rush?

Answer 8

a

Question 9

How great a problem was banditry in early American California? Who was Black Bart, and what was unusual about his robberies?

Answer 9

a

Question 10

In what state was the Comstock Lode located? Note that the silver mining there drained capital from CA, worsening the already depressed economy of the 1870s.

Answer 10

a

Question 11

Despite the fact that the mining of precious metals remained the dominant economic activity for CA for the entire period 1849 - 1869, what temporarily (after the drought of 1862-4) became the most important agricultural product, associated with the work of Dr. Hugh Glenn and others?

Answer 11

a

Question 12

Who was Henry Huntington?

Answer 12

a

Question 13

How did the completion of the 1st transcontinental RR affect the unemployment situation in CA?

Answer 13

a

Question 14

How did the Southern Pacific RR use a political machine to corrupt politics at all levels of goverment in CA?

Answer 14

a

Question 15

Who was William Mulholland?

Answer 15

a

Question 16

The Populist Party, seen as being impervious to Southern Pacific corruption, inspired reformers in both the Democratic and Republican parties by the turn-of-the-century period. With which party were these progressives in CA usually affiliated?

Answer 16

a

Question 17

Why did revolutionary socialism have such little success among CA trade unionists?

Answer 17

a

Question 18

What kind of workers did the IWW tend to try to organize?

Answer 18

a

Question 19

What were the basic goals of the CIO during the 1930s?

Answer 19

a

Question 20

Who was the progressive President who handled the diplomatic crisis with Japan in 1906?

Answer 20

a

Question 21

What industry was the largest single employer of women in CA during the early 20th century?

Answer 21

a

Question 22

How did progressives try to increase direct participation of people in lawmaking?

Answer 22

a

Question 23

Who was Katherine Philips Edson? She is often viewed as a model progressive woman. She helped many working women via the Industrial Welfare Commission, but her many public activities seemed to have ruined her marriage and family life.

Answer 23

a

Question 24

As part of the post-WWI Red Scare, the criminal syndicalism law sent many members of what radical union to prison?

Answer 24

a

Question 25

Though one may not think of petroleum refining as a “manufacturing” industry, it was California’s leading industry during which decade?

Answer 25

a

Question 26

How have prejudice and language barriers affected job opportunities for Mexican workers?

Answer 26

a

Question 27

In LA during the 1920s, how were most Mexican-Americans employed? How did they fare in terms of patterns of upward mobility? What about spatial mobility?

Answer 27

a