READING CHECK || "California Gold Rush"
Authored by Ben Deines
Social Studies
6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
According to the text, what was the approximate dollar amount of gold discovered in the California minefields during the Gold Rush?
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The California "Gold Rush" featured a tremendous population influx into northern California. The newly arrived population centered on the area around which PRESENT-DAY California city?
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Before the Gold Rush, what group made up the largest proportion of California's population?
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Before 1769, approximately how many Native Americans lived in the borders of present-day California?
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which TREATY transferred possession of California and other western territories from Mexico to the United States?
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In 1848, who first discovered gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains ?
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is one reason why the author includes information about James Wilson Marshall?
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