CA History Review

California Indians prior to European contact

Had the greatest concentration in North America

Prior to European contact, majority of California Indians were

Hunter/gatherers

The legal basis on which the United States obtained California from Mexico in 1848 was:

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Texas was acquired through _____ in ____.

annexation, 1845

Louisiana was acquired through _____ in ____.

purchase from France in 1803

Alaska was acquired through _____ in ____.

purchase from Russia in 1867

The discovery of gold in California in 1848 and resulting statehood in 1850 changed the political landscape of the United States primarily because:

there was a temporary resolution to the free state/slave state controversy.

The majority of native Californians lived in or near the:

Centtral Valley and western slopes of the Sierra Nevada

Cesar Chavez is most closely associated with political reforms in

Unionization of migrant farm workers

With the election of Hiram Johnson as governor of California, the Progressive Movement achieved reforms in

Initiative, referendum and recall

RR commission

Alien Land Law

California national political leaders who was a native Californian and became President of the United States

Richard Nixon

California state bird

Valley quail - indigenous bird

California state tree

Redwood

California state flower

Golden poppy

California state freshwater fish

Golden trout

The time period that saw the greatest percentage increase in migration to California

Post WW2, 1940-1950

The Octopus: A California Story (1901), by Frank Norris, vividly describes the negative impact of monopolies on the lives of many California citizens. What was the industry in focus?

Railroad

The California Constitution and the U.S Constitution differ in which of the following ways?

Length of Supreme Court appointments

Line Item Veto

Popular Sovereignty

California gets the majority of its 25% water supply from

Colorado River

Non-indigenous group that settled in North America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World

Vikings

Treatment of Native Americans during the Mission Systems

Native Americans worked as indentured servants, or in slave like conditions.

During the Great Depression what government project brought water from Northern California to Southern California?

Central Valley Project

Which of the following was the fastest way for people from the eastern portions of the United States to get to the  Gold Rush fields of California?

By land and sea around the Isthmus of Panama

Who were the Californios?

Native born Mexican citizens in California

Popular Sovereignty are represented by

initiative, referendum and recall.

Body of water was accidentally created by engineers trying to bring water to the Imperial Valley

Salton Sea

How long have the Native Americans lived in California?

15,000 years

Aqueduct bringing water to SF, LA

Hetchy Hetcch

Aqueduct bringing water to LA and San Diego

Colorado Aqueduct

Aqueduct that have a negative impact on Owen and Mono Lake

LA Aqueduct

The governor of California has more power than the president of the United States in which of the following areas?

Power to veto specific components of a spending bill

Which of the following created a massive movement of people who migrated to California in the early 1930’s?

Dust Bowl