Gold Rush Flocab

In the mid-1800s, people caught gold ________ and went west to California.

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• flu

• sickness

• fever

• cold

True or False: The only way to reach California was by land in the mid-1800s.

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• True

• False

Forty-niners were named for ________.

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  the dollar value of gold

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  the year they arrived in California

• a major highway in California

• the number of miners that arrived

Miners lived in ________ alongside each other.

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• dormitories

• parks

• hotels

• camps

Miners ________ for gold in mineral deposits in river bends called placers.

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• panned

• flanged

• salted

• crunched

________ prospectors got rich during the California Gold Rush.

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• zero

• early

• most

• state

True or False: California became a state before the California Gold Rush.

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• true

• false

Why was the Foreign Miners’ Tax instituted?

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  To decrease competition from foreign miners

• To attract foreign miners

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  To increase tourism

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  To make it illegal for foreign miners to come to America

Which of the following people would most likely have made the most money during the gold rush?

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• An American miner who arrived in 1853

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  A merchant who sold mining equipment

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  A foreign miner forced to pay taxes

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  An Indigenous person from California

How did the settlement of California during the gold rush impact the area’s Indigenous population?

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• It made many Indigenous people rich.

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  It granted most Indigenous people job opportunities.

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  It nearly wiped out the Indigenous population entirely.

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  It did not affect California’s indigenous population.