4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 8
A Growing State
Rails, water and new industries
What your child practices
The Pony Express, telegraph and transcontinental railroad, immigration and migration (including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Angel Island and the Dust Bowl), World War II, California's water system, public education and new industries from farming to technology.
California Content Standards learning standard: 4.4.1; 4.4.3; 4.4.4; 4.4.5; 4.4.6; 4.4.7; 4.4.8; 4.4.9 · how California became an agricultural and industrial power: transportation, immigration and migration, the Depression and World War II, new industries, water, education and influential Californians
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Why did the Pony Express end?
- the mail was banned
- horses ran out
- the telegraph sent messages much faster
- people stopped writing
the telegraph sent messages much faster
Hint: The telegraph line was finished in 1861.
Question 2
John Muir helped protect…
- Yosemite and other wild places
- oil fields
- freeways
- shopping centers
Yosemite and other wild places
Hint: He started the Sierra Club in 1892.
Question 3
The University of California began in…
- 1849
- 1769
- 1990
- 1868
1868
Hint: It was part of California's public education system.
Question 4
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded a union to help…
- farm workers
- astronauts
- bankers
- movie stars
farm workers
Hint: They led the grape boycott in the 1960s.
Question 5
Which is a big California industry today?
- fur trapping
- technology and computers
- pony mail
- whale oil
technology and computers
Hint: Silicon Valley is near San Jose.
Question 6
Many Californians changed the nation's arts, science and technology, such as…
- George Washington
- astronaut Sally Ride and photographer Ansel Adams
- King George III
- Christopher Columbus
astronaut Sally Ride and photographer Ansel Adams
Hint: Both were born in California.