Chapter 7 Test Review

Before the 1800’s how did Californias communicate with the East?

• Ships traveling around Cape Horn
• Hot air balloons
• Pony Express
• Teleportation devices

What was John Butterfield’s contribution to California’s growth as a state?

• Invented the telegraph
• Discovered gold in California
• Founded the Butterfield Overland Mail Company by Stagecoach

• Established the Pony Express

The Big Four was a group that owned which railroad company?

• Central Pacific Railroad
• Burlington Northern Railroad
• Southern Pacific Railroad
• Union Pacific Railroad

What war made it hard for companies to find workers for the transcontinental railroad?

• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Civil War
• World War II

The Completion of the railroad affected the California economy negatively. This was because cheap goods were brought in which caused businesses to ___________.

• open more stores

• gain profits

• open

• close

What motivated Southern Pacific Railroad to gain more than 11 million acres of California land?

• To promote environmental conservation efforts
• To establish a monopoly on the California land market
• To support local agriculture and farming initiatives
• Under the Pacific Railroad Act, companies got land for every mile of track they laid

What does the word export mean?

• Storing goods in a warehouse
• Producing goods for domestic consumption
• to sell to other countries

• Importing goods or services from another country

What caused the violence at Mussel Slough?

• Dispute over water rights and low crop prices
• Disagreement over political ideologies and religious beliefs
• Conflict arising from a dispute over fishing rights and hunting territories
• Farmers and a railroad company disagreed over the price of land

Where was a canal built that enabled people to establish farms in the Imperial Valley during the early 1900’s?

• Workers built a canal from the Colorado River to irrigate

• the desert

• the mountains

• the coast

 Who was Yee Fung Cheung?

• Yee Fung Cheung was a Russian chemist.
• Yee Fung Cheung was a Japanese biologist.
• A herbalist who came to California to look for gold

• Yee Fung Cheung was a French physicist.