The California Gold Rush

"Gold Fever" referred to__________________.

• people getting sick from mining too much gold.

• the skin turning a goldish color from a high temperature.

• The craze of 1849 in which over 80,000 people moved to California to mine gold.

• Everyone wearing gold clothes to celebrate.

Mexican officials gave a Swiss immigrant named _________________________ permission to start a colony in California.

• James K. Polk

• John Sutter

• Levi Strauss

• James Marshall

The ________________ was a group of western travelers who went to California but were stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during winter.

• San Francisco 49ers

• Placer Miners

• Californios

• Donner Party

Gold-seeking migrants who moved to California in 1849, hoping to strike it rich were called ___________________.

• 49ers

• Golden Boys

• Vaqueros D'oro

• Migrant Miners

____________________ used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.

• Biddy Mason

• Placer miners

• Stake Claimers

• Catherine Haun

Why was Sutter's Mill important?

• It was the place where 49ers stayed when they moved west.

• It was the site near where gold was discovered in 1848, which began the gold rush.

• Many immigrants from Europe and China worked there.

• It was the first mining camp that allowed African-Americans

In 1850, California became the _____________state.

• Golden

• Empire

• 31st

• Miner

The majority of miners who came to California to search for gold did not become rich.

• True

• False

_______________ was a German Jewish immigrant who earned a fortune by making tough denim pants for miners.

• Robert E. Lee

• Gianni Versace

• Ralph Lauren

• Levi Strauss

The 49ers would _____________ , or search for gold.

• scrounge

• dig

• prospect

• scavenge