WorksheetsKlondike and California Gold Rush
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When was the KLONDIKE gold rush?
1800-1888
1980-1990
1896-1899
1869-1876
where was the KLONDIKE gold rush?
Texas
California
Toronto
Yukon
How many people went to klondike
30,000
500,000
100,000
1,000
how many people COMPLETED the trip to klondike?
100,000
10,000
300
30,000
To go to klondike people sold their farms and dropped businesses to go
True
False
what was the normal temperature of the klondike trail?
-20 F.
20 F.
-15 F.
-30 F.
who were the klondike kings?
Keish-Skookum Jim, George Washington, Kate Carmack-
Samuel Brannan, Leland Stanford, Levi Strauss
Charles Maule Ramsay, Frank H. Reid, Tex Rickard
Who am I?
Jayesh Skookum
Keish-Skookum Jim
George washington
Robet Mckeandly
what was Keish-Skookum Jim considered to be?
a wealthy man
a generous man of historic significance
a dishonest person
a hard worker
How many dollars worth of gold was found in the KLONDIKE gold rush?
1 billion
2 thousand
One hundred
10 billion
What type farming was practiced in the Great Plains?
Pastoral Farming
Commercial Farming
Dry farming
Subsistence Farming
What act helped settlement in the Great Plains?
Navigation Acts
Chinese Exclusion Act
Homestead Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Where were the Great Plains located?
Canada
East Coast
West Coast
In the middle of the United States, extending from the South and Midwest
What weather did the Great Plains endure?
Cold weather always
Humid weather
Extreme weather varying by seasons (dry to cold)
Several inches of rainfall daily
What technology helped settle the Great Plains?
Steel Plow
Dry Farming
Railroad
All of the answer choices are correct
When did the California Gold Rush occur?
1949
1979
1959
1969
What were migrants who rushed to the California Gold Rush called?
Forty-Niners
Gold diggers
Miners
Longhorns
Who started the California Gold Rush?
Louis Moliongton
David Marlington
James Marshall
Shane Marshall
Who struck lucky at the Gold Rush?
Everyone
All Americans
Mexicans
Very select few
What did the Gold Rush cause?
California became a state
San Francisco was destroyed
Texas was annexed
Florida was lost to the Spanish
