YEARS OF GROWTH - MINERS

The group of workmen was building a sawmill beside a stream in California for a landowner named John in...

• In March 1848

• In April 1848

• In March 1858

• In May 1848

Who saw the golden specks in the stream?

• Nobody

• The foreman in charge of the workers

• The doctor in charge of the workers

• The foreman in charge of the teachers

The news of the foreman's discovery was sweeping through ...

• Arizona

• Florida

• Texas

• California

When did the gold rush start?

• By the middle of the summer of 1848

• By the middle of the summer of 1858

• By the middle of the spring of 1848

• By the middle of the autumn of 1848

By 1852 the population was more than...

• 350,000

• 250,000

• 150,000

• 300,000

In the next twenty years people looked for gold to other parts of the far West. It was:

• in the mountains of Nevada and Colorado

• in Montana and Wyoming

• in the Black Hills of the Dakota country

• in the mountains of Nevada and Colorado, Montana and Wyoming and in the Black Hills of the Dakota country

In many ways, the California Gold Rush precipitated a veritable economic revolution in the state, the nation, and the world. Is it true?

• Yes

• No