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California Gold Rush Effects

Total questions: 5

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sucker Flat and Murderers Bar were names of what in California?

a)

successful mining companies

b)

businesses for social gatherings (restaurants and saloons)

c)

boomtowns or successful economic cities

d)

educational workshops on how to mine for gold

2.

Which of the following was NOT true of individual Anglo-American miners in California?

a)

many died of disease and accidents

b)

many sacrificed to make the journey to start mining

c)

many struggled to find success economically

d)

many used violence against other minority miners

e)

all of the other provided answers are true

3.

Who were the original Spanish settlers of the southwest who were forced to give up their territorial rights after the Gold Rush?

a)

Tejanos

b)

Californios

c)

Apache Indians

d)

Chinese immigrants

4.

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?

a)

Australian

b)

Californios

c)

Chinese

d)

Russian

5.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

a)

restrictions on free immigration and excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation

b)

banned the Chinese method of carrying vegetables and carrying laundry on a pole, while in San Francisco

c)

it required Chinese immigrants to pay a $20 tax to mine in California

d)

outlawed the wearing of long braids by men, a Chinese custom