Colorado Gold Rush PBL Assessment

Gold is a valuable resource because it is...

• very soft and beautiful

• used to make jewelry

• scare and desirable

• valuable and attractive

The first gold rush in the United States took place in ____.

• California

• Alaska

• Colorado

• Georgia

A long tom is ___.

• a wooden trough 12 to 25 feet long

• a mining box that resembles a cradle

• a shaft of gold 150 feet deep

• steel plates

Hydraulic Mining is

• another name for coyote mining.

• used by miners to test new sites for gold.

• very inexpensive.

• a process that ruins the environment.

Gold was discovered in California in ___.

• 1849

• 1948

• 1848

• 1949

Gold was usually discovered in ___.

• sparsely populated areas.

• heavily populated areas.

• deserts.

• areas near large cities.

Camp meetings were usually ___.

• long.

• democratic.

• run by the mayor.

• always fair.

More than any other gold rush, the Comstock Lode produced more ___.

• millionaires.

• gold.

• outlaws.

• mining towns.

"Pike's Peak or Bust" was painted on wagons going to ___.

• Colorado

• Montana

• Georgia

• South Dakota

In 1896 and 1897 gold was discovered in ___.

• Alaska.

• Australia.

• South Dakota.

• Montana.