California
Under which 1848 treaty was California ceded to the United states, following the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which country became home to eighteenth and nineteenth century British and Irish convicts?
Australia
The passage of which act fostered the arrival of more than 100,000 Korean military wives arrival to the United States?
The War Brides Act of 1945
What disease has caused the largest number of deaths over the course of human history?
Malaria
What famous male orator delivered an impassioned speech in defense of Resolution #9: The right for women to vote?
Hint: He was the sole Black delegate
Frederick Douglass
Which is the oldest city in California?
a. Santa Barbara
b. Los Angeles
c. San Francisco
d. San Diego
e. Stockton
d. San Diego
The Summer of 1858 in London was nicknamed what, after the humid weather awakened the smell of untreated human waste on the river Thèmes?
The Great Stink
Particularly relevant to the histories of women of color in the United States is their practice of “infrapolitics”. Define this term.
To engage in infrapolitics is to engage in covert methods of daily, everyday resistance.
What global epidemic, coined the Black Death, struck Asian and Europe in the 1300s, resulting in the death of 1/3 of Europe’s population?
The Bubonic Plague
How many witches were burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials?
None – 20 were hung. Witch burning was a European phenomenon (the idea was that a burned body could not be resurrected on Judgment Day
Name the Native American people who have lived in what is now San Diego County and northwest Baja California for at least 10,000 years.
Kumeyaay
What was the name of the first nineteenth century Irish Nationalist leader, who pushed for Catholic emancipation
Hint: He was also known as “the Liberator”
Daniel O'Connell
Chicana feminism has its beginnings in what decade?
The 1970s
Name that bacterial infection that thrived in nineteenth century America and Europe, due in large part to overcrowding and diminishing hygiene standards brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Notably, thought to be responsible for Helen Keller’s Loss of sight and hearing?
Scarlet Fever
Tenochtitlan was the capital of what empire?
Aztec
In 2019 many people in San Diego are commemorating the 250th anniversary of what important event?
Founding of Mission and Presidio of San Diego
In the late 1800s, what was the name of the unidentified serial killer who was active in the impoverished White Chapel District in London?
"Jack the Ripper"
Scholar Gloria Anzaldua calls the region alongside the borders between the United States and Mexico – where the “third world grates against the first” what?
Borderlands
What is the name of the infectious disease, whose first pandemic emerged out of the Ganges Delta in Jessore, India, in 1817, and spread throughout most of India by way of European trade routes?
Cholera
During the industrial revolution in England, these textile workers were infamous for attacking and destroying power looms and other machinery, which they felt would eliminate their jobs. Today, we associate the name of these weavers with anyone who opposes technology.
Luddites
This deadly 1883 explosion of an Indonesian volcano was so loud that it could be heard over a 1000 miles away. Barometers across the planet registered a change in pressure from the volcano, and the volcano changed global climate, reducing global temperature by half a degree and doubling the amount of precipitation in Southern California. The volcano also led to vivid red sunsets, which were captured by late nineteenth-century European painters. What is the name of this volcano?
Krakatoa
What was the name of the 1864 parliamentary act, pushed by the Victorian Feminist Josephine Butler, enacted in response to the spread of venereal disease?
The Contagious Diseases Act
Which of scholar and activist Angela Davis’ texts, offered one of the first comprehensive histories of enslaved Black women?
Women, Race, & Class, published in 1981.
What long-standing disease reached epidemic proportion in the early 1900s, and was notably contracted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Polio
Name the two-armed conflicts fought in China in the mid-nineteenth century between the Qing Dynasty and Western forces. The British claimed they were fighting in the name of free-trade, while in reality they were imposing the trade of this illicit drug which shares its name with the two conflicts.
The Opium Wars