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. The Golden Gate Bridge

Chapter 1: A Land of Riches

2. The Ohlone nation lived in San Francisco first
3. False
4. 40
5. yes
6. yes
7. yes
8. western people
9. They used wood and reeds
10. Sir Frances Drake
11. England
12. 1579
13. He was making reference maps
14. The White Cliffs of Dover
15. New White Land
16. San Francisco
17. The Spanish were the first explorers to settle San Francisco
18. 1776
19. Mission Dolores
20. They built a Presidio and a fort.
21. False
22. True
23. False
24. True
25. The name “California” comes from a Spanish story about an island filled with mythical animals and gold
26. Alaska
27. Yerba Buena
28. Good Herb
29. Because it had so much sweet-smelling mint growing in the hills
30. A large ranch
31. Wealthy Mexican families owned the ranchos
32. Some were 50 to 60 miles apart
33. little towns

Chapter 2: A Gateway to Gold

34. false
35. true
36. 800 people
37. 25,000 people
38. 1847
39. Wells Fargo
40. The trolley is the symbol of San Francisco
41. Andrew Hallidie
42. true
43. Peter Lester and Mifflin Gibbs
44. Mifflin Gibbs
45. Chinese people
46. 1882
47. Chinese Exclusion Act

Chapter 3: A City of Hope

48. 1906
49. 3 days
50. 50% of the population lost their homes during the earthquake and fires of 1906
51. 1914
52. 1915
53. Joseph Strauss
54. 4 years