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WorksheetsPioneers & Gold Rush
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Why were people rushing to California in 1849?
Wagons
The Homestead Act
Gold
Shovels
True or False: More people made money selling supplies than they did actually finding gold.
True
False
Most Pioneers traveled to the West by:
Locomotive
Ship
Wagon
People who went to California in search of gold were called:
Goldies
Californios
49'ers
The mechanism used to lower pioneers down into the mines was called a:
Hoist
49'ers
Felt Cap
Levi's Jackets used by miners were called:
Jeanies
Sluices
Blouses
Most Pioneers lived in this type of house:
Sod House
Prairie Dog House
Log Cabin
People who were daring enough to go out west to build homesteads & explore new opportunities were called:
Wagon Crazies
Pioneers
Lincolners
Sooners
Which of these groups were NOT one of the ones to take advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862?
Single women
Immigrants
Formerly Enslaved Peoples
Chinese Immigrants
True OR False: The journey west for Pioneers was MOSTLY safe.
TRUE
FALSE
The Donner Party was famous due to the legend that they had to
fight bears by hand to survive
climb Mount Everest to make it to the West
Resort to cannibalism due to lack of food
invented the wagon
The animals that posed a threat of stealing pioneers' chicken were
Gerbils
Hamster
Meerkats
Prairie Dogs
The President who passed the Homestead Act of 1862 allowing for good deals on western land was:
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Joe Biden
The Oregon Trail could be dangerous due to all of these EXCEPT
Rain
Sailing Deep Oceans
Diseases (i.e. Cholera)
Cold/ Snowstorms
New towns that sprouted due to the rush for gold in California were called:
Boomtowns
Ghost towns
'49ers
Homestead plots
