California Gold Rush

Entrepreneurs made a ____ by selling to the miners.

• gold rush

• fortune

• overrun

• placer mining

In 1848, there were no ______ connecting California to other states.

• railroads

• ships

• wagon trails

• newspapers

How was the American West different after the gold rush?

• Three hundred thousand people came to California.

• California became a state.

• A railroad was built to connect the East to the West.

• all of the above

Who were the forty-niners?

• a group of people who joined the gold rush in 1849

• a group of people who decided to leave California

• 49 people who came from other countries

• people who worked for John Sutter

What did Levi Strauss invent?

• microscope

• telephone

• shovel

• jeans

What was NOT a way to travel to California from the East?

• train to Texas, then bus to California

• boat to Panama, then hope for a boat on the other side

• wagon through rough mountains

• boat around the tip of South America

What year did the gold rush begin?

• 1850
• 1848
• 1823
• 1849

1. What was "gold fever?" 

• A. A disease caused by exposure to radioactive gold 
• B. A sudden rise in gold prices caused by the discovery of gold in California 
• C. A mental illness that caused people to mistake worthless metals for gold 
• D. The desire to get rich quick by acquiring California gold

Where was gold first discovered in California?

• Sutters Mill
• San Fransisco
• San Diego
• Sacramento

Did most gold miners strike it rich?

• yes
• no