Deck 16: Economic Growth

Question 1

In the early 20^th century,the great growth of southern California was increasingly

A)exaggerated by land promoters.
B)downplayed by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
C)urban.
D)rural.

Answer 1

urban.

Question 2

From the 1880s onward,the area of greatest population growth in the state was

A)the Santa Clara Valley.
B)the upper Sacramento Valley.
C)the north central part of California.
D)southern California.

Answer 2

southern California.

Question 3

Grower-owned cooperatives became quite popular during the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries in several fields of California agriculture.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In 1900 California's wine production was

A)virtually wiped out by phylloxera.
B)still of poor quality.
C)more than 80 percent of the nation's output.
D)confined solely to southern California counties.

Question 5

According to the textbook,19^th-century medical evidence proved the helpfulness of the southern California climate in the curing of tuberculosis.

Question 6

Ultimately the greatest concentration of vineyards was in Fresno County.

Question 7

The major source of profits for promoters of interurban electric railroads was

A)automobile production.
B)operating revenues provided by large ridership.
C)real estate speculation.
D)the operation of companion ferry systems.

Question 8

Citrus growers formed cooperative marketing organizations to

A)eliminate private ownership.
B)improve the conditions of migrant laborers.
C)combat speculators.
D)lobby for effective border security with Mexico.

Question 9

The southern California population boom of the 1870s was stimulated by

A)the rapid expansion of motorways for automobiles.
B)a "health boom."
C)the popularization of romantic notions via Hollywood films.
D)the destruction of San Francisco by earthquake and fire.

Question 10

California irrigation districts were authorized by the

A)first legislature of California.
B)Wright Irrigation Act of 1887.
C)California Debris Commission.
D)state supreme court in Lux v.Haggin.

Question 11

The California "wheat bonanza" greatly stimulated the development of new agricultural machinery.

Question 12

The largest wheat grower in California during the "wheat bonanza" of the late 19^th century was

A)Frank Norris.
B)Dr.Hugh J.Glenn.
C)William Wolfskill.
D)Claus Spreckels.

Question 13

"Bindlemen" were

A)commission merchants who represented state growers.
B)importers of bundles of prime grape cuttings.
C)migrant workers who labored on the wheat ranches.
D)railroad agents who "bound out" shipping contracts.

Question 14

The spread of irrigation in California during the 1880s helped to make the "dry farming" of wheat less profitable.

Question 15

The newly invented tractor first used on the farms of the

A)San Joaquin Valley.
B)Imperial Valley.
C)Sacramento Valley.
D)Salinas Valley.

Question 16

Among George Chaffey's greatest accomplishments was his

A)victory in the case of Lux v.Haggin.
B)election as California's first "dirt-farm governor."
C)development of irrigation in the Colorado River area.
D)all of the above

Question 17

Which of the following did not stimulate the development of California's orange industry in the 1870s?

A)the increased use of the mission orange
B)the introduction of the navel orange from Brazil
C)the increased growing of oranges on higher lands outside of the coastal fog belt
D)the advent of the railroad

Question 18

Wheat ranching in California from the 1860s through the early 1890s was

A)a highly speculative enterprise.
B)the state's largest and most profitable agricultural activity.
C)increasingly mechanized.
D)all of the above

Question 19

The earliest laborers in the California citrus industry were primarily immigrants from

A)Mexico.
B)Italy.
C)China.
D)Japan.

Question 20

Agoston Hasaszthy was

A)the father of the modern California wine industry.
B)the major citrus grower of southern California.
C)a pioneer in the production of California sugar beets.
D)a southern California land speculator.

Question 21

Explain the major controversies over California water use in the 19^th century.What measures were taken to resolve these controversies?

Question 22

Discuss the development and effects of interurban electric railways between the 1890s and the automobile age.

Question 23

By 1900 the populations of the metropolitan Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay regions were approximately equal.

Question 24

According to the textbook,the role of George Chaffey in the development of California irrigation has been greatly exaggerated.

Question 25

The Southern Pacific Railroad played a major role in the advertising and romanticizing of southern California.

Question 26

The struggle for control of water for irrigation in California was settled with surprisingly little conflict or bitterness.

Question 27

Explain the beginnings of the wheat,wine,and citrus industries in California.What role did the state's geography,climate,and technological improvements play in their development?

Question 28

Explain the factors which gave rise to the southern California real estate "booms" of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

Question 29

Andrew S.Hallidie invented the cable car in San Francisco.