California Gold Rush

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

• flu

• sickness

• fever

• cold

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

• true

• false

Forty-niners were named for _____.

• the dollarvalue of gold

• the year they arrived in California

• a major highway in California

• the number of miners that arrived

Miners lived in _____ alongside each other.

• dormitories

• hotels

• parks

• camps

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

• panned

• flanged

• salted

• crunched

_____ prospectors got rich during the California Gold Rush.

• Zero

• Early

• Most

• State

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

• true

• false

Why was the Foreign Miners' Tax instituted?

• To decrease competition from foreign miners

• To attract foreign miners

• To increase tourism

• 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?

• an American miner who arrived in 1853

• a merchant who sold mining equipment

• a foreign miner forced to pay taxes

• an indigenous person from California

How did the settlement of California during the gold rush impact the area's indigenous population?

• It made many indigenous people rich.

• It granted most indigenous people job opportunities.

• It nearly wiped out the indigenous population entirely.

• It did not affect California's indigenous population.