Week 15

Question 1

What did the Mormon battalion help build in California?

Answer 1

Sutter Mill

Question 2

What did the Mormon Battalion discover in California?

Answer 2

Gold rated AAA+

Question 3

When did gold fever start?

Answer 3

1849

Question 4

What was discovered in Arizona?

Answer 4

Valuable minerals

Question 5

What did Abraham Lincoln do when he heard about the ores in Arizona?

Answer 5

He made Arizona a territory.

Question 6

When and where did gold fever start in Arizona?

Answer 6

1858 in gila city in the gila river

Question 7

What did the boomtown bring to gila city

Answer 7

Saloons pool halls stores a church and a jail but then in 2 years gila city became a ghost town.

Question 8

When did copper mining start in Arizona

Answer 8

In the 1850’s

Question 9

Why wasn’t copper as good to mine as gold?

Answer 9

The price of copper wasn’t very high and moving the heavy ore was hard.

Question 10

What replaced gold mines in Arizona

Answer 10

Copper mines

Question 11

When was gila county made part of maricopa and pinal county?

Answer 11

1881

Question 12

What are the main industries of gila county

Answer 12

Mining and raising livestock

Question 13

Who is the weaver district named for and why

Answer 13

Pauline weaver because he found gold there, it is south of Prescott. He also found gold in the gila river in the town of la Paz

Question 14

Where was the first silver boom in Arizona

Answer 14

Tubac presidio when Arizona was owned by the use

Question 15

When was the tubas presidio fort first built?

Answer 15

1752

Question 16

Who started the Sonora exploring mining company in tubac and when

Answer 16

Charles poston in the 1850’s

Question 17

What did the Sonora exploring company do?

Answer 17

They mined silver, smelted it sent it to Mexico where it was then shipped to San Francisco. They also used mule trains to send the silver to Kansas City.

Question 18

Why was copper and silver mining so difficult to make money at?

Answer 18

It was difficult to transport

Question 19

Who was Ed schiefflin

Answer 19

He discovered the largest silver mine in Arizona history in 1877. 15000 miners then showed up and built the town of tombstone. Tombstone is now a tourist town

Question 20

Who was Henry wickenburg?

Answer 20

He left Austria to look for gold in America. He threw a rock at a vulture and when it broke open it had gold in it. That mine was named vulture mine and the town is now called wickenburg.

Question 21

Did lots of people make money mining gold?

Answer 21

No only a few, and most of the gold went to store and saloon owners to buy expensive food and drinks and supplies.

Question 22

What is a burro?

Answer 22

A burro is well adapted to hot climates, is about 3 feet tall and can carry huge packs and even people. There are more than 3000 wild burros in Arizona.

Question 23

How many businesses are in the usa

Answer 23

There are more than 24 million and 99 percent of them are small.

Question 24

What is an entrepreneur

Answer 24

A courageous person that puts their own money on the line for an idea they believe in. They have to work very hard to be successful.

Question 25

What is profit?

Answer 25

It is the money left after a company pays the costs of getting the product or service to consumers.

Question 26

What was the name of the army group that settled arizona?

Answer 26

The Mormon battalion