The Elusive Eden Chapter Twelve
The Thirty-First State

1. What was the “Gold-Energy Equation?”
2. What was the Monterey Constitutional Convention?
3. What was the “instant city?”
4. Who was David Wilmot?
5. What was the Missouri Compromise Line?
6. What was “the Military Interregnum?”
7. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
8. What did John D. Sloat, Robert F. Stockton, Stephen W. Kearney, John C. Fremont, Richard B. Mason, Richard B. Mason, Persifor F. Smith, and Bennet Riley have in common?
9. What was the Laws for the Better Government of California?
10. What Mexican Governmental elements survived the Bear Flag revolt and American California?
11. What did Washington Bartlett and Stephen J. Field have in common?
12. Why was Constitution of 1849 written?
13. What was the connection between San Francisco, Bennett Riley and the Constitutional Convention?
14. Where and when was the Constitutional Convention held?
15. Who were the delegates?
16. Who was Robert Semple?
17. What were the major issues discussed at the Constitutional Convention?
18. Why was slavery made illegal?
19. How was the California border decided on?
20. What relation do the The Rocky Mountains have with the California border?
21. What was Deseret and what connection did it have to the California border?
22. How was Deseret connected to Sam Brannan?
23. How was the Constitutional Convention possibly connected to Seneca Falls?
24. What was the relationship between Mexican Law, Women’s Rights and the California Constitution?
25. Who was Julia Shannon?
26. How did the concept of Jacksonian Democracy influence the California Constitution?
27. What did banknotes, corporations, and dueling have in common?
28. How was California government and taxation organized?
29. What was the Great Seal?
30. What was the problem with the Bear, the Vaquero, and the reata?
31. How were Los Angeles, Yerba Buena similar to the Californios and the Bear Flaggers?
32. When did California become a state?
33. What did John C. Fremont and William Gwin have in common?
34. What was “The Legislature of a Thousand Drinks?”
35. What do San Jose, Vallejo, Benecia, and Sacramento have in common?
36. What was the Compromise of 1850?
37. How did California Statehood affect the U.S. Senate?
38. Who was David C. Broderick?
39. Who was William Gwin?
40. What were the “Tammany” Democrats?
41. What were the “Chivalry” Democrats?
42. Who were the “Know-Nothings?”
43. Which political party was supported by Hopkins, Huntington, Stanford and Crocker?
44. What laws were passed that benefited California miners?
45. Who was Joaquín Murieta?
46. What were the “Sydney Ducks?”
47. What were the Vigilance Committees of 1851 and 1856?
48. What was the “golden mountain?”
49. What were coolies, “sojourners” and “credit tickets?”
50. What was the Foreign Miners’ Tax Law?
51. What was the Exclusion Act of 1882?
52. What was a “fugitive slave law?”
53. Who was Biddy Mason?
54. Who was Robert Smith?
55. Who was Robert Owens?
56. What did a writ of habeas corpus have to do with slavery in California?
57. What were “Spanish” land grants? How many were there?
58. What was one square league?
59. Where Mexican land grants legal under American law?
60. What was a quarter section?
61. What was the Preemption Act of 1841, the Land Act of 1851 and the Homestead Act of 1862?
62. Did Mexican land grants generally hold up in court?
63. Were there farmers among the Argonauts?
64. What crops can be grown with dry farming techniques?
65. What was California’s most important agricultural export when the transcontinental railroad opened in 1869.
66. How many gallons of wine was produced annually in 1870?
67. What was an important reason the Yerba Buena’s name was changed changed?
68. What type of business were Thomas Larkin, Robert Semple and Mariano Vallejo all involved in?