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Worksheets4th Grade Unit 3 Multiple Choice Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 45mins
Why did John Sutter build a fort?
to protect other pioneers
to trade with California Indian groups
to sell supplies
to help California gain statehood
Russian settlers came to California in the early 1800s because
they wanted to set up farms.
they wanted to trap sea otters.
they were on their way to South America.
they wanted to explore all lands of North America.
Who built Fort Ross?
Russian fur trappers
Spanish missionaries
John Sutter
American pioneers
People from the East Coast of the United States came to California across land and
by sailing around Cape Horn.
by sailing across the Pacific.
by sailing around Cape Hope.
by going through the North Pole.
Many settlers migrated west in the early 1800s because
of World War I.
the United States was expanding.
the United States government paid for their trip.
they came to find gold.
Which of the following was not a result of the Gold Rush?
Many forty-niners came to California.
Boomtowns developed.
Entrepreneurs started new businesses.
A mill was built in Coloma.
Who was Louise Clapp?
the wife of the man who discovered gold near Sutter's Mill
a doctor who came to help the miners
the author of letters that described life around the mines
a teacher in the mining towns
Who was Biddy Mason?
the first woman to work in the gold mines
a formerly enslaved woman who became free and successful
the author of Ramona
a fugitive who helped write the Compromise of 1850
"Eureka!" is California's state motto. It means
help!
we are on our way.
we found it!
look who's coming!
Who discovered gold?
John Bidwell
James Marshall
James Beckwourth
John Sutter
In what year did California become a state?
1848
1849
1850
1851
The capital of California is
Los Angeles
San Francisco
San Diego
Sacramento
The uprising by Americans against Mexico because they wanted to become an independent republic was called
World War 1.
The Mexican-American War.
The Bear Flag Revolt.
A strip of rich gold deposits in the Sierra Nevada was called
a gold mine.
the mother lode.
striking it rich.
fool's gold.
California was the ____ state to join the union.
1st
10th
25th
31st
