Gold Fever!

In what year did the United States and Mexico go to war?

• 1846

• 1864

• 1848

• 1884

The United States and Mexico were at war because they could not agree on where the​ ​______ was between them.​

• border

• gold

• silver

• trees

Who owned a fort in Sacramento, California that sold fruits and vegetables?

• John Brown

• John Black

• John Sutter

• John Smith

John Marshall built a _______ along the river on Sutter's property.

• sawmill

• fort

• barn

• garden

Sutter told Marshall that he and his men could ______ the gold they found as long as they did not tell where they found it.

• sell

• hide

• trade

• keep

What was the name of the man who sold newspapers and also hoped to get rich by selling supplies to miners?

• President Polk

• Sam Brannan

• John Sutter

• Marshall

What year did people from all over the world rush to California to find Gold?

• 1848

• 1847

• 1850

• 1849

Those who rushed to California to find gold and get rich were called?

• Football Players

• Miners

• Forty-Niners

• Gold Rushers

The Forty-Niners _______ for gold in streams and dug for it in hillsides.

• looked

• dug

• shoveled

• panned

What were the pans that miners used to separate the gold from the sand in rivers made from.

• tin

• glass

• wood

• rock