4.3.4 California Women in History Video Quizizz

Why did women come to California in the early 1850's?

• To search for gold with their husbands

• To help run farms

• To start businesses of their own

• All of the above

Why did Mary Tape go to court?

• To fight for a gold mine

• To fight for her daughter's right to go to public school

• To fight for animal rights

• To fight for the rights of African American men

Who did Helen Hunt Jackson try to help by writing her book?

• the Chinese-Americans

• the African-Americans

• the Native-Americans (Indians)

• the Italian-Americans

What is the practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay called?

• apprenticeship

• slavery

• work study

• camping

Did California allow slavery when it became a state in 1850?

• No. It has always been a free state.

• Yes. It used to be a slave state.

Who was Biddy Mason?

• A preacher in Sacramento who had a large church

• An angry farmer whose barn burned down

• A former slave who won her freedom in court

• The wife of a wealthy businessman

Some women got involved in politics even though they weren't allowed to ________.

• sing

• farm

• vote

• work

Bernarda Ruiz helped to make peace and end which war?

• The American Revolution

• World War I

• The Mexican-American War

• World War II

Katherine Philips Edson worked for women's sufferage. What is sufferage?

• the right to go to school

• the right to vote

• the right to go shopping

• the right to party

What is a change to the state or federal constitution called?

• an appendage

• a folklore

• a crosshatch

• an amendment