CHAPTER SEVEN VOCAB QUIZ

Hostility against the irrigation project to exploit the wares of the eastern Sierra showed the superiority of the city's power over the country, and had enormous __________ for the Owens Valley.

• consequences

• devastating

• impact

• Holocaust

The backlash over the miscommunication caused a __________ economic collapse.

• consequences

• devastating

• impact

• Holocaust

Everyone was speculating on the __________ of the referendum on society.

• consequences

• devastating

• impact

• Holocaust

The __________ was the result of extreme antisemitism.

• consequences

• devastating

• impact

• Holocaust

The homestead had to be relinquished because of its proximity to the _________ camp where the Japanese-Americans were held during World War Two.

• descent

• detainee

• plummeted

• ethnicity

The _________ of the journalist's career began when he was blacklisted for supporting communism.

• descent

• detainee

• plummeted

• ethnicity

The corporation's stock value _________ when it was no longer a monopoly..

• descent

• detainee

• plummeted

• ethnicity

The _________ of the immigrants made it difficult to find a livelihood in the 1800s.

• descent

• detainee

• plummeted

• ethnicity

After the transcontinental railroad was built, there was an almost insatiable _____________ for coal.

• supply

• demand

• depression

• optimism

The _____________ of agricultural products made by the settlers lowered due to drought.

• supply

• demand

• depression

• optimism