4th Grade Unit 3 Multiple Choice Test

Why did John Sutter build a fort?

• to protect other pioneers

• to trade with California Indian groups

• to sell supplies

• to help California gain statehood

Russian settlers came to California in the early 1800s because

• they wanted to set up farms.

• they wanted to trap sea otters.

• they were on their way to South America.

• they wanted to explore all lands of North America.

Who built Fort Ross?

• Russian fur trappers

• Spanish missionaries

• John Sutter

• American pioneers

People from the East Coast of the United States came to California across land and

• by sailing around Cape Horn.

• by sailing across the Pacific.

• by sailing around Cape Hope.

• by going through the North Pole.

Many settlers migrated west in the early 1800s because

• of World War I.

• the United States was expanding.

• the United States government paid for their trip.

• they came to find gold.

Which of the following was not a result of the Gold Rush?

• Many forty-niners came to California.

• Boomtowns developed.

• Entrepreneurs started new businesses.

• A mill was built in Coloma.

Who was Louise Clapp?

• the wife of the man who discovered gold near Sutter's Mill

• a doctor who came to help the miners

• the author of letters that described life around the mines

• a teacher in the mining towns

Who was Biddy Mason?

• the first woman to work in the gold mines

• a formerly enslaved woman who became free and successful

• the author of Ramona

• a fugitive who helped write the Compromise of 1850

"Eureka!" is California's state motto. It means

• help!

• we are on our way.

• we found it!

• look who's coming!

Who discovered gold?

• John Bidwell

• James Marshall

• James Beckwourth

• John Sutter