WorksheetsCalifornia Gold Rush Effects
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 4mins
Sucker Flat and Murderers Bar were names of what in California?
successful mining companies
businesses for social gatherings (restaurants and saloons)
boomtowns or successful economic cities
educational workshops on how to mine for gold
Which of the following was NOT true of individual Anglo-American miners in California?
many died of disease and accidents
many sacrificed to make the journey to start mining
many struggled to find success economically
many used violence against other minority miners
all of the other provided answers are true
Who were the original Spanish settlers of the southwest who were forced to give up their territorial rights after the Gold Rush?
Tejanos
Californios
Apache Indians
Chinese immigrants
The Foreign Miner's Tax of 1850, the Sidewalk Ordinance of 1870, and the Queue Ordinance of 1873 were all laws that targeted which group of people in California?
Australian
Californios
Chinese
Russian
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
restrictions on free immigration and excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation
banned the Chinese method of carrying vegetables and carrying laundry on a pole, while in San Francisco
it required Chinese immigrants to pay a $20 tax to mine in California
outlawed the wearing of long braids by men, a Chinese custom
