California Gold Rush Test

What is a pioneer?

• A person who lives in all parts of a country.

• A person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country.

• A person who is traveling around parts of a country.

• A person who is two of three settlers from a part of a country.

Where was Sutter’s Fort located?

• Where the Natives grow crops and raise livestock.

• Where Sutter and Fort Avenues meet.

• Where the Sacramento and American Rivers meet.

• Where the ocean meets the coast.

Helen Hunt Jackson was a writer who thought the treatment of American Indians was _____.

• Just

• Amazing

• Fantastic

• Unfair

What do we call the settlers who moved to California for the gold rush or “gold fever?”

• Forty-niners

• Fourty-niners

• Forty-miners

• Fifty-niners

Most women who traveled to California found a job _____ or doing laundry.

• Drawing

• Teaching

• Cooking

• Cleaning

What did Samuel Brannan do differently than other people who came to California?

• He mined for gold and silver on mountain tops.

• He sold gold mining tools and materials to gold miners.

• He was the first American to own property in California.

• He stayed back home in the East Coast and opened a restaurant.

When did Mexico win their independence from Spain?

• 1821

• 1812

• 1776

• 2021

San Francisco, Stockton, and Sacramento are examples of _____.

• Bigtowns

• Boomtowns

• Boomcities

• Bigvillages

Edith and her family immigrated to California last year. What does “immigrate” mean?

• To land safely on an airplane.

• To come into another country to live.

• To swim up and down the Pacific Ocean.

• To go away from a long period of time.

What were three mining methods that we read about?

• Digging, dry washing, and rocker or cradle.

• Digging, panning, and rocker or cradle.

• Panning, dry washing, and rocker or cradle.

• Panning, dryer and washer, and rocker or cradle.