California Gold Rush progress check (A)

What year did Mexico gain their independence and include California became part of Mexico?

• 1700

• 1821

• 1849

• 1850

What year did California leave Mexico and join the US? (NOT as a state yet)

• 1700

• 1821

• 1848

• 1849

What was discovered in California in 1849?

• Oil

• Diamonds

• Gold

• nothing

a miner who went to California in 1849 to search for gold

• Native Americans

• Settlers

• Pioneers

• Forty-Niners

the time period that people moved to California to search for gold

• California Gold Rush

• Boomtowns

• Westward Expansion

• The Oregon Trail

What were Boomtowns?

• The towns people left to move to California

• The towns along the Oregon Trail

• The towns whose populations grew quickly during the gold rush

What is a merchant?

• Someone who was mining for gold

• Someone who sells things

• Someone who creates things

• Someone who leads a group on a trail

What did miners need to look for gold? (Select all correct)

• Newspapers

• Mining pans

• Shovels

• Metal Detector

• Pick

Why were merchants able to sell supplies to miners for high prices?

True or false:

Miners became more wealthy than the merchants.

• True

• False