13.4 - The California Gold Rush

What is the name for someone who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849?

• forty-niner

• Gold digger

• pan-handler

• The First forty-nine

Who's discovery of gold on John Sutters land sparked the California Gold Rush?

• Charles Hardin

• James Marshall

• Andrew Johnson

• Zachary Taylor

What description best describes the Chinese immigrants that lived in California in the mid 1800s?

• rich and intelligent

• slow and ignorant

• hard working and patient

• nomadic or moving around all of the time

Because of prejudice and unfair taxes the Chinese community left the gold mines and formed businesses and communities know as what?

• Chinese Neighborhoods

• Little China

• Asian Square

• Chinatown

What happened to many of the Californios after the americans and other immigrants took over the government?

• Many Californios were not respected and lost their land

• Many Californios became rich

• Californios sailed to Hawaii

• Many Californios became government officails

What happened to California in 1850?

• It was admitted into the Union as a Slave State

• It was admitted into the Union as a Free State

• They declared war on Canada

• They had a great famine

The enslaved woman Nancy Gooch gained her freedom because of the law against slavery in California. She then worked as a cook and washerwoman until she saved enough money to do what?

• Purchase her families' freedom from slavery in Missouri

• Run for Governor of California

• Buy a boat to sail to China

• Buy a horse ranch and raise race horses

What did Southerners fear about the addition of California into the Union?

• Free states would have the majority and try to abolish slavery

• California would declare war on Mexico

• all their citizens would move to California

• The U.S. would be too big and impossible to govern

What were four groups of people that became forty-niners?

• White Americans, African Americans both free and enslaved, Mexicans, Other foreigners from Europe, South America, Australia, and China.

• Native Americans, Hawaiians, Filipinos, and Africans

• Canadians, Swedish, Norwegian and Russian

• None of the above

Who controlled California before the U.S.?

• Spain then Mexico

• France and Germany

• England then The Netherlands

• Scotland then Spain