Friday, January 3, 2014

The Story of San Francisco by Dan Furey

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Book: The Story of San Francisco
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203040-7

Introduction

1. What is San Francisco’s most famous landmark?

Chapter 1: A Land of Riches

2. Who were the first residents of San Francisco?
3. The Ohlone nation was a single nation.  True or False
4. The Ohlone nation was made up of ______ different bands.
5. Did the Ohlone nation have different languages?
6. Did the Ohlone nation have different customs?
7. Did the bands that made up the Ohlone nation live in the same area?
8. What does the word Ohlone mean?
9. What items did the Ohlone use to build small boats?
10. Who was the first explorer to meet the Ohlone?
11. From which country was this explorer?
12. In what year did this explorer arrive to San Francisco?
13. What was this explorer doing when he arrived to San Francisco?
14. The landscape of San Francisco reminded Sir Frances Drake of which place in England?
15. What does Nova Albion mean in Latin?
16. What area did Sir Frances Drake name Nova Albion?
17. Who were the first explorers to settle in San Francisco?
18. In what year did the Spanish settle in San Francisco?
19. What is the name of the church the Spanish built in San Francisco?
20. What else did the Spanish build around the church?
21. The Ohlone forced the Spanish to work for them.  True or False
22. The Spanish forced the Ohlone to work for them.  True or False
23. Mission Dolores was able to survive without the harsh treatments impose to the Ohlone people.  True or False
24. According to the book, “without the Ohlone to raise food and do much of the work, the mission town struggled.  There was talk of closing the outpost.”  True or False
25. Where does the word California come from?
26. From which land did the Russian trappers come from?
27. What was the name of the seaport?
28. What does Yerba Buena stand for in Spanish?
29. Why was it called Yerba Buena?
30. What is a rancho?
31. Who owned the ranchos?
32. How far were some ranchos from each other?
33. By some ranchos being far apart, some began to look like ______________________.

Chapter 2: A Gateway to Gold

34. By 1822 California was part of the U.S.  True or False
35. California joined the United States in 1850.  True or False
36. About how many people lived in Yerba Buena in 1845?
37. About how many people lived in San Francisco by 1850?
38. Yerba Buena’s name was changed to San Francisco in ___________________.
39. What was the name of the company that transported gold, money, and important papers all around the country?
40. What is the symbol of San Francisco?
41. Who designed the electric cable car or trolley?
42. San Francisco became the first major city of the American West.  True or False
43. What were the names of the two African American men who opened a store in San Francisco in 1853?
44. Who became the first African American judge in the United States?
45. Which ethnic group was seen as taking jobs from some Americans?
46. In what year did the government pass a law banning Chinese people to enter the United States?
47. What was this law called?

Chapter 3: A City of Hope

48. In what year did San Francisco suffer a terrible earthquake?
49. For how many days did the fires burn after the earthquake?
50. What percentage of the population lost their home during the earthquake?
51. In what year was the Panama Canal opened?
52. In what year did San Francisco host the World Fair?
53. Who designed the Golden Gate Bridge?
54. How many years did it take to complete the Golden Gate Bridge?


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