Nevada History Test 3 Exam Questions With Correct Answers Graded A+
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Delamar - CORRECT ANSWER-Prospectors found gold outcropping here in 1892.
Utah investors extracted more than $12 million worth of gold within the next few years before the ore bodies were exhausted in this town
It became Notorious because many young men died from SILICOSIS after using new, power...
Nevada History Test 3 Exam Questions
With Correct Answers Graded A+
Delamar - CORRECT ANSWER-Prospectors found gold outcropping here in 1892.
Utah investors extracted more than $12 million worth of gold within the next few years
before the ore bodies were exhausted in this town
It became Notorious because many young men died from SILICOSIS after using new,
power-driven drilling machines.
By 1910, it had been virtually abandoned. 125 miles north of Las Vegas
Tonopah - CORRECT ANSWER-Most Nevada historians have identified JIM BUTLER,
a struggling central Nevada rancher, as the discoverer of the rich silver mines of This
town in 1900
the rocks he sampled indicated a vein of ore worth more than $300 a ton-bonanza-
grade silver. Butler staked some claims and named the sight.
in the Paiute language meant "A PLACE OF LITTLE WATER"
Was one of the first mining communities in the West to overcome its isolation by means
of the automobile.
Key Pittman - CORRECT ANSWER-The most famous politician to rise from Tonopah
A Democratic attorney who sat in the U.S. Senate from 1913 until his death in 1940.
-Mark on several pieces of fiscal-monetary legislation, including the Pittman Act of 1918
and the Silver Purchase Act of 1934.
"A man's word is his bond" - CORRECT ANSWER-In the mining business, this was
said. Because it was all the miners had.
There were few violations of that faith in the new mining town.
, Goldfield Ore - CORRECT ANSWER-This type of ore was some of the richest ever
found in the American West, but it was confined to a very small area, and it occurred in
a shallow geologic deposit.
-The value of the raw ore usually assayed at $100 per ton, and a few shipments brought
as much as $12,000 per ton.
-they came known as "jewelry ore"
"Wingfield Machine" - CORRECT ANSWER-Wingfield moves to Reno to build a
financial network based on his Goldfield millions and a league of political associates that
controlled much of the state's business for a generation.
This was his alliance,and it influenced state politics for nearly forty years, with prominent
Democrats and republicans both serving as his errand boys during much of that time.
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company - CORRECT ANSWER-By 1904, Mark Requa,
in turn, established contacts with the famous Guggenheim family of Philadelphia, which
was building one of the largest mining-smelting empires in the world, and he joined
them in forming this.
"Clark-Harriman War" - CORRECT ANSWER-The competition between William A. Clark
(U.S. Senator) and Edward H. Harriman (Owner of union pacific) continued. Both
started building rail lines westward from Utah. The crews of the two rail builders met just
north of Las Vegas at the Meadow Valley Ranch. In what would be called this War, both
men claimed the right to build into the valley. The two rail barons finally negotiated a
compromise.
Reno's more famous citizens: (Clark, Church and Laxalt) - CORRECT ANSWER-The
Novelist Walter Van Tilburg Clark evoked descriptive natural moods and scenes that
have respected places in the literature of the Far West. Dr. James Edward Church, the
University of Nevada snow scientist and classicist, gained an international reputation as
an interpreter and analyst of Sierra watersheds.
Robert Laxalt, the son of an immigrant Basque sheepherder, spread his neighbors'
passion for the landscape and mountain people through the pages of numerous books
and articles.
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