Chapter 7 The Golden State

Most Forty-Niners came to California by what route?

• around Cape Horn

• overland through Canada

• across the Isthmus of Panama

• overland from Missouri

Which was the largest of all California boom towns?

• San Francisco

• Sacramento

• Stockton

• San Jose

Hydraulic mining techniques were used mostly by ________.

• Native American miners

• the earliest Forty-Niners

• large mining companies

• poor foreign miners

Biddy Mason's case was important because it resulted in __________.

• citizenship for Native Americans

• freedom for enslaved persons

• the vote for women in California

• the vote for African Americans

Eventually, most rancheros in California lost their lands to ______________.

• squatters

• the Modoc

• Forty-Niners

• the Land Commission

In ___________ California became the 31st state to join the United States.

• 1850

• 1848

• 1860

• 1849

Who bought good from the East and sold them to Californians?

• James Beckwourth

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Levi Strauss

• James Marshall

• Henry Clay

Who criticized the government's treatment of Native Americans?

• James Beckwourth

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Levi Strauss

• James Marshall

• Henry Clay

Who authored the Compromise of 1850?

• James Beckwourth

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Levi Strauss

• James Marshall

• Henry Clay

Who was the "mountain man" who discovered a new pass through the Sierra Nevada?

• James Beckwourth

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Levi Strauss

• James Marshall

• Henry Clay