Gold Rush passage and questions

What year did James Marshall discover gold?

• 1855

• 1848

• 1847

Where did James Marshall discover gold?

• Coloma, California

• Forty Niners

• Sacramento California

What were the "forty-niners" trying to do?

• start a football team

• get people to settle in California

• find gold and strike it rich

What was the opportunity cost for these men?

• finding gold meant more than time with family

• they took gold instead of silver

• they had to dig deep to find ore

How did some people die during the Gold Rush?

• All they had to eat was gold

• They got trapped inside of mines

• They got trampled on the Oregon Trail

Gold became ______ to find in a few years.

• easier

• harder

• impossible

What did they have to do to find gold?

• make more gold mines

• hire more people to dig

• blast water into the earth

Why was keeping law and order hard in mining towns?

• minors had crispy edges

• minors were rough around the edges

• minors got along so well

True or false? Minors were proud of the others when they found gold.

• True

• False

What happened to the towns once all the minors left?

• they are full of rich people and thriving

• they are known as forty niners

• they turned into ghost towns