The Road to Rhyolite

People arrived in Rhyolite for the...

• gold and money

• hotels and restaurants

• free land

Rhyolite grew a lot in just...

• 3 years

• 2 years

• 4 years

An earthquake destroyed San Francisco...

• so more people moved to Rhyolite.

• so the people mined more gold.

• so economy hurt in Rhyolite.

Investors built more railroads...

• to run through the town of Rhyolite.

• to mine more gold.

• so economy hurt in Rhyolite.

Arrange the events in order:

1. San Francisco suffered an earthquake.

2. Agnes the hotelkeeper welcomes people to Rhyolite.

3. People became bankrupt.

4. The economy was hurt by the earthquake.

• 3, 2, 1, 4

• 2, 1, 4, 3

• 4, 3, 1, 2

What is the genre of the story, The Road to Rhyolite?

• realistic fiction

• historical article

• play

They offered to finance the mines and share the profits.

• millionaire investors

• broke hotelkeepers

• rich barbers

What did the miners and investors build?

• b and c

• a post office, a jail and a bank

• an assay office

bankrupt

• businesses run out of money

• gold increased in value

• investors became millionaires

The year the Gold Rush ended and many boomtowns became ghost towns.

• by 1844

• by 1864

• by 1884