California Gold Rush

 What year did the gold rush in California begin? 

• 1492
• 1619
• 1776
• 1848

Where was gold first discovered in California?

• Sutters Mill
• San Fransisco
• San Diego
• Sacramento

What was the nickname for people who moved to California during the gold rush? 

• Surfers
• Coasters
• Forty Niners
• Raiders

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 gold

What was it called when miners used pans to separate dirt from gold? 

• Gold sifting
• Dirt panning
• Panning for gold
• Pan searching

What is an entrepreneur?

• someone who moved to California looking for gold

• type of steamboat

• someone who takes a risk to start a business

• a boomtown

Levi Strauss is famous for

• creating the first pair of blue jeans

• creating the first grocery store

• finding gold

• creating the telegraph

Which state became our nation's thirty-first state in 1850?

• Oregon

• Washington

• Texas

• California

Mexican and Chinese miners worked hard and found a lot of gold, but they also faced discrimination. What is discrimination?

• unfair treatment of people based on their race, gender, age, or other characteristic

• given fair treatment

• when others help each other out

• treating others like you want to be treated

Why did the telegraph replace the Pony Express?

• the telegraph was more harder to use

• Pony Express riders went on strike

• weren't enough horses availble in the United States

• the telegraph could deliver messages more quickly than the Pony Express could