Gold Fever Scholastic/Jan. 30, 2023

What does the word migration mean?

• people who move to a new country

• People who search for valuable minerals

• Movement from one region to another

• Having a really bad headache

Gold seekers, that arrived in California in 1849 and later years were know as?

• Forty-niners

• Gold finders

• Sutter's Mill Americans

• Lucky gold seekers

What countries did immigrants come from?

• Spain, Italy, and Greece

• Russia, China, and France

• Japan, Switzerland, and Mexico

• Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia

Who made the biggest fortunes?

• forty-niners

• The prospectors

• immigrants

• People that opened stores, hotels, and banks

What are prospectors?

• People who clean up after others.

• People who search for valuable minerals and metals, like gold.

• People who travel around the world look for property.

• People who play sports for a country.

When did the Gold Rush End?

• 1982

• 2005

• 1855

• 1998

Look at the map on page 3, What is the capital of California?

• Coloma

• Sacramento

• Sutter's Mill

• San Francisco

Use the picture and the caption of page 2 to answer the question, what did miners use to sift through the dirt when searching for gold?

• salt water

• dirty water

• bottled water

• river water

When did California become the 31st state?

• 2015

• 1995

• 1985

• 1855

What is California's nickname?

• The Golden state

• The Garden State

• The Sunshine State

• The First State