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Gold Rush Questions
1) Why is gold so valuable?
a) It is good for food b) It is very malleable
c) It is brittle d) you can eat it
Answer b) It is very malleable
2) Who found the gold?
a) Abraham Lincoln b) George Meade c) James Marshall
d) John Sutter
Answerc) James Marshall
3) How did the Gold Rush start out?
a) Not much, really b) A Whole bunch of people came
c) No one came at all d) none of these
Answer a) Not much,
really
4) What race came first besides Americans?
a) Chinese b) b) Spanish
c) Irishd) Americans
Answer a)Chinese
5)When did the Gold Rush end?
a) 1845 b) 1850 c) 1855 d)1899
Answer c) 1855
6)What are the consequences of getting gold?
a) diseaseb) cave ins
c) death on desertd) finding nothing
Answerb) cave ins
7) Why does gold not rust?
a) 90% pure (natural)b) Not a metal
c) noned) because it is found underground
Answera) 90% pure
(natural)
8) What are one of the minerals often know as fool's gold
a) Pyrite b) Gold
c) Asurited) Maginite
Answera)Pyrite
9) Who were the first people to
make it to California?
a) The Californiansb) The 49ers
c) People who lived the closest to the gold fields.d) None
Answerb) The 49ers
10) Which one of these are not one of the Gold seekers?
a) Chinab) Turkey c) Russia
d) Germany
Answerc) Russia
11) Was there only 1 gold rush in the world?
a) There were a fewb) There was a lotc) There are none
d) none
Answerb) There was a lot
12) How many countries came to California?
a) Almost all
b) b) nonec) average d) A few
Answera)Almost all
13) Which people got more money in the California Gold Rush?
a) Gold minersb) Trade
c) People selling supplies for the Gold rush d) Government officials
Answerc) People selling
supplies for the Gold rush
14) How much money was found in that time?
a) $100,000,000b) $10,000,000
c) $0.10d) $81,000,000
Answerd) $81,000,000
How many people died in the California Gold Rush?
a) 18,000b) 900c) Not foundedd) No one died
Answerc) Not
founded
16) When the Gold Rush ended, why did people go to Nevada
a) Silver was found b) More gold was foundc) Diamonds were found
d) Had to settle there for good climate
Answera) Silver was found
17) What happened to James Marshall
when the Gold Rush ended.
a) He died penniless b) He kept some gold for himself
c) when he discovered ithe went to Nevada
d) Nothing
Answer a) He died penniless
18) What happened thanks to the gold rush?
a) California became the thirty first stateb) The first transcontinental railroad was made
c) a and bd) Nothing
Answerc) a and b
19) How many gold rushes
are there in the world?
a) A lotb) Rarely
c) Averaged) None
Answera) A lot
15) When the Gold Rush ended where did everyone go?
a) Virginiab) Nevada c) Mexicod) Stayed
Answerb) Nevada
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