READING CHECK || "California Gold Rush"

According to the text, what was the approximate dollar amount of gold discovered in the California minefields during the Gold Rush?

• $45 million worth of gold was discovered during the Gold Rush.
• $81 million worth of gold was discovered during the Gold Rush.
• $150 million worth of gold was discovered during the Gold Rush.
• $2 billion worth of gold was discovered during the Gold Rush.

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?

• San Diego
• Los Angeles
• Fresno
• San Francisco

Before the Gold Rush, what group made up the largest proportion of California's population?

• Californios
• Spanish settlers
• Native Americans
• American immigrants

Before 1769, approximately how many Native Americans lived in the borders of present-day California?

• 100,000 Native Americans lived in California before 1769
• 150,000 Native Americans lived in California before 1769
• 250,000 Native Americans lived in California before 1769
• 300,000 Native Americans lived in California before 1769

Which TREATY transferred possession of California and other western territories from Mexico to the United States?

• The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• The Treaty of Velasco
• The Treaty of Ghent
• The Louisiana Purchase

In 1848, who first discovered gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains ?

• Sam Brannan
• James Marshall
• James K. Polk
• John Sutter

What is one reason why the author includes information about James Wilson Marshall?

• to help explain what ended the Gold Rush
• to help explain what started the Gold Rush
• to highlight the most famous '49er
• to highlight the wealthiest miner at the time

California was admitted to the United States as the 31st state after Senator Henry Clay struck a deal to allow its admission. In what year was California granted statehood?

• 1848
• 1849
• 1850
• 1857

Easy to find "surface gold" was largely gone in northern California by 1850. By 1853, mining corporations began using more industrialized techniques to access hard to find gold veins. What environmentally destructive mining technique was used by these companies to extract this hard-to-find gold in the California goldfields?

• slouse box mining
• strip mining
• hydraulic mining
• surface gold extraction

How is this article organized overall? What is the MOST LIKELY reason the author chose this organizational structure?

• The author primarily uses a chronological structure to logically describe the progression of the California Gold Rush.
• The author primarily uses a cause and effect structure to carefully analyze the factors that motivated people to participate in the California Gold Rush.
• The author primarily uses a problem and solution structure to explain how advances in technology improved outcomes for miners involved with the California Gold Rush.
• The author primarily uses a descriptive structure to paint a picture of what it was like to be a miner during the California Gold Rush.