Social Studies 2022 2nd Semester Final

In spite of so many mistakes and problems along the way, the Donner Party would have made it during most years, but were doomed by...

• Grizzly Bears

• A rockslide

• Flooding

• An unusually early snowstorm

This shortcut was promoted to the Donner Party by a man who had never actually traveled it himself. It was almost impassable, and cost the Donner Party months of time that they didn't have

• Hasting's Cutoff

• The Cumberland Road

• The Middle Passage

• Henry's Gap

People traveling west in Prairie Schooners usually left the Midwest in April, when did the Donner Party leave (this decision contributed to their demise)?

• MArch

• June

• May

• February

People who rushed to California in 1849 to find gold had unrealistic expectations because along with newspapers, this person said there was so much gold people could walk around and pick it up off of the ground

• General Grant

• The Governor of California

• The Secretary of the Interior

• The President

Foreigners were discouraged from coming to California to mine, as Americans didn't like them coming and finding gold. Foreigners were subjected to

• Going to jail for no reason

• Being murdered and thrown into the ocean

• A $20 a month mining tax

• Having to share their gold with the governor

He founded a school specifically for the deaf

• Gallaudet

• Howe

• Mott

• Johnson

She founded the first all girls school

• Beecher

• Beecher Stowe

• Mott

• Stanton

Helen Keller attended the first school for the blind, founded by

• Grinestaff

• Kendall

• Gallaudet

• Gridley Howe

He was a former slave who was a gifted speaker, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and was a passionate abolitionist

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

• Moses Grimke

This woman worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in planning and coordinating the Seneca Falls Convention

• Catherine Beecher

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Grimke

• Lucretia Mott