California Gold Rush
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who were the people who went to California in 1849 to find gold?
Gold Seekers
Forty-Niners
Prospectors
Miners
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was something most boom towns needed?
Money
Gold
Food
Police
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How did the news about the discovery of gold in California spread so quickly?
Through social media
By carrier pigeons
By television
Through newspapers and President Polk’s speech
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What item did Levi Strauss become famous for providing to miners?
Tents
Cooking pots
Blue jeans
Shovels
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these was a common route to California during the Gold Rush?
Across Mexico
Around Cape Horn
Around Canada
Across the Sahara Desert
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was Samuel Brannan known for during the Gold Rush?
Finding the first gold nugget
Selling mining supplies
Leading a wagon train
Building railroads
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a ghost town?
A town with only old people
A town with a haunted house
A town that was abandoned
A town with gold mines
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