Story of the World: III Chapter 42: The World of Forty-Nine

The Spanish found gold in _______, and the Americans found gold in ______.

• Mexico, Australia

• South America, California

• South America, New Zealand

The ______ fought against the English in Australia, and the _____ fought against the English in New Zealand.

• Aborigines, Māori

• French, Dutch

• Mexican, Haitians

The cities of 1850 had beautiful buildings at their centers and ____ around their edges.

• slums

• farms

• villiages

In 1850, the slaveowners in the U.S. quarreled with the ______ who wanted to make slavery illegal.

• Aborigines

• abolitionist

• astronauts

John Sutter hired Jim Marshall to ______.

• pan for gold

• open a trading post

• build a sawmill

• oversee his farm

Marshall and his men found gold in the American River in the ______.

• Klondike

• Sacramento Valley

• Death Valley

• Shenandoah Valley

How did Marshall test the gold to see if it was real?

• He bit it with his teeth.

• He burned it.

• He hammered it out.

• He took it to a bank.

What did Sam Brannan sell when he discovered there was gold at Sutter’s Mill?

• land

• blue jeans

• dynamite

• picks and pans

When a person in California wanted to claim land as his own, what did he do?

• put a fence around it

• asked the government for permission

• drove a stake in the ground

• all of the above

People came to California from ______.

• England and France

• China

• Germany and Sweden

• all of the above