According to our textbook, socialism reached its high point in California and th
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According to our textbook, socialism reached its high point in California and the United States a.The Gold period b. The progressive era c. the years of the Great Depression d. the 1950s e. 1970s. According to our textbook, The Mooney Case had to do with: a. Shady real estate dealings. b. Stealing gold from foreign miners c. Labor issues/union organizing and murder d. Money laundering from the SF Newspaper agency e. None of the above According to our textbook, in the 1920s the business community had considerable success in branding labor unions as: a. Dishonest b. Trustworthy c. Unpatriotic d. Contributing to the ill financial health of the country e. Cheating the workers out of livable wages The Founder of the Sierra Club, a naturalist, and a "protector of Yosemite" was a. Frederick Law Olmstead b. James Phelan c. Teddy Roosevelt d, John Muir e. Fred Eaton According to our textbook, the Hetch Hetchy controversy had to do with: a. Taking the land of Yosemite Valley away from the Indians. b. The cost of the water once the project was finished. c. Who would own Yosemite Valley d. The cost of the project that would take over a decade to complete e. Destroying the natural beauty and environment to build a reservoir/dam According to the Farallon Island group presentation, there was a Common Murre that were on the islands and there was even "industry" derived from the Common Murre such as the a. Pacific Egg Company b. Common Murre Pet Shop c. Sight Seeing Tours d. Bait Company e. Bird Hunting ToursExplanation / Answer
16. answer b: The progressive era from 1890-1920 was the time period of widespread political reforms and social activism and reforms across the United States. The progressive era started as social movement but changed into political movement. The main aim of this movement was the eliminating problems caused due to immigration, urbanisation, corruption in government, industralisation, poverty. People believed that these problems can be solved by providing good education, safe workplace. These people lived mainly in cities and were educated and they believed that government can bring this change. Jane Addams and journalists like Jaccob Riis and Ida Tarbel were important social reformers of this time.
17. answer d: Mooney was a labour leader and a political activist. He was convicted with Warren Billings for the bombings in 1916 at San Francisco preparedness day parade. About 10 people died and 40 were injured in this incident. Billing was sentenced to life imprisonment and Mooney was sentenced to hang. Mooney served 22 years in jail and after that he was pardoned in 1939. So Mooney case was related with labour issues organizing and murder.
18. answer c: In late 1920s there was critical time in American labour movement. It was viewed earlier as the partner in achieving in world war one. But now it was now viewed as anti American, demanding and was guilty of putting its goals ahead of the general welfare of the nation. This was caused because after the war the employers were not willing to give higher wages to the labours since the price of the commodities were rising which led to strikes by labours in hundreds from 1919-1920. For this employers led a successful strikes against the union known as American plan and blame these unions as alien to the spirit of the nation.
19. answer d: Sierra Club is an environment organisation founded on May 28,1892 in California, US. It was founded by a preservationist John Muir. Originally associated with progressive movement, the main focus of the Sierra club is to mitigate the problems of global warming, oppose the coal and encourage sustainable energy and also encourages the politicians to promote green policies.
20. answer e.Hetch Hetchy was once a glacially carved U shaped valley and was a beautiful natural site with its towering cliffs and waterfalls which flows down into the Hetch hetchy valley floor. The valley was protected when Yosemite national park was created in 1890. But in 1913, the president of US Woodrow Wilson of US signed the Raker act on december 1913 which allowed the San Franscisco to build a dam the Yosemite beautiful Hetch Hetchy valley. This created wide controversy and the opposition was led by John Muir.
21. answer a: Farallon is a group of island off the coast of San Franscisco, California. The island is also known for the Breeding grounds of the common murre a bird. In 1948, an immigrant collected thousands of eggs from the island. He was able to make enough money from them and founded a pharmacy called Pacific egg company. He returned to Sanfranscisco with a worth $3000 of Murre eggs. In 1850 a group of eggers founded the Farallon egg company and set out to aquire right to all the eggs of the Farallon.
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