What Was the Gold Rush? Chapters 8 & 9

Gold rush towns were nicknamed Boomtowns.

• True

• False

Mining was very exciting work.

• True

• False

What was the most exciting city in California at this time?

San Francisco became known as the Golden Gate.

• True

• False

By 1850, there were more than _______ abandoned ships in the harbor.

A ship named the Niantic became a hotel.

• True

• False

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company started in San Fransico and has been in business for more than 160 years.

• True

• False

Author Jack London wrote a book set during the Klondike gold rush: The Call of the Wild.

• True

• False

Miners did not know that the chemical ___________ they were using was poisonous.

• oxygen

• hydrogen

• mercury

• chlorophyll

A new, faster way of mining called hydraulic mining, which made the process much easier.

• True

• False