Gold Rush Study Guide
(answers are in the summary pages in your practice book, and your foldable)
1.What do you shout when you find gold? ____________________________
2.About how many people came to California between 1848 and 1854? _________________
3.Who was the United State president at the time of the Gold Rush? _____________________
4What are the three different routes that people took to get to California?
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Which route was cheapest? _________________Which was most popular?________________
Which was the shortest? _________________ Which was the longest? __________________
5.What were three methods of mining? ____________________________,
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6.What are three challenges of life as a miner? _____________________________________
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7.What did immigrant miners and California Indians face? _____________________________
8. What was the Foreign Miners Tax? _____________________________________________
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9.When was gold discovered? __________Who discovered the gold? ____________________
Where was gold discovered? ___________________________
10. Who supposedly told everyone about the discovery of gold? ________________________
Why did he spread the secret? ____________________________________________________
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11. What happened to the California geography after the gold rush? (think hydraulic mining)
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12. How did the 49ers get their name? _____________________________________________
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13. What are two ways the gold rush helped California? _______________________________
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