FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GOLD

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GOLD

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-Guarantee passing score -26 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 4. Why did Sam Brannan announce that gold had been found in the American River?

Answer:

He wanted to sell shovels to eager miners

Question 2: 2. Who first discovered gold in California?

Answer:

James Marshall

Question 3: 23. Why were prices high in the mining towns?

Answer:

There was a high demand for goods and services because mining towns were far from places that sold goods more cheaply Question 4: 22. What were some of the types of businesses that sold things to miners?

Answer:

Shops sold food, tools, blankets, clothes, and services such as laundries and blacksmiths were provided

Question 5: 21. Why did many businesses boom during the Gold Rush?

Answer:

Many people arrived and bought goods and services Question 6: 17. What technologies did the miners begin using after gold in streams and rivers was gone?

Answer:

Hydraulic mining using powerful jets of water to break up rocks and soil, tunnels, gunpowder Question 7: 19. How did discrimination affect the lives of Chinese, Mexican, and California Indian miners?

Answer:

California Indians were paid less than other less skilled miners, attacks forced Chinese and African-American miners into separate camps, in many camps people worked and lived peacefully

Question 8: 6. About how many people joined the California Gold Rush in 1849?

Answer:

About 80,000 Question 9: 20. What happened to the population of California between 1848 and 1852?

Answer:

The population went from about 30,000 to almost 300,000

Question 10: 14. How did miners use pans to separate gold from mud and gravel?

Answer:

They let the heavier gold settle in pans after the lighter sand and soil were poured off Question 11: 8. What were the three routes that forty-niners took to California?

Answer:

Overland, Sea, Sea and Land combined Question 12: 11. What were some of the problems the travelers faced on the different routes?

Answer:

See the "routes" booklet

Question 13: 15. Why did miners use rockers and long toms?

Answer:

These technologies let the miners separate more gold from rock and dirt faster

Question 14: 9. What route was the most popular? Why?

Answer:

Land because it was the least expensive Question 15: 7. What were the ways that people learned about the discovery of gold?

Answer:

Sam Brannan, newspapers, President Polk's speech

Question 16: 16. What happened to the availability of gold after several years?

Answer:

The gold in streams and rivers was mostly gone in a few years and miners had to use new methods to get gold Question 17: 13. Who were some of the immigrants, people who leave one country to live in another, that added to California's diversity during this time?

Answer:

China, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia

Question 18: 1. When was gold discovered in California?

Answer:

January 1848

Question 19: 5. Where were many of the first miners from?

Answer:

Californios from other parts of California and California Indians

Question 20: 18. What were some difficulties of life in mining camps?

Answer:

Few places to buy food, crude shelters and tents, fires in crowded mining camps, discrimination

Question 21: 10. What was the fastest route? Why?

Answer:

Panama route because it combined the sea and land Question 22: 26. What kind of businesses did Ghirardelli, Strauss, Wakefield, and Wilson start?

Answer:

(candy, chocolates) (clothing, jeans) (pies) (hotel) Question 23: 25. What are three ways entrepreneurs earned money during the Gold Rush?

Answer:

Selling food, clothing, supplies. Running a hotel, restaurant, or laundry.

Question 24: 12. How many people came to California between 1848 and 1854?

Answer:

About 300,000

Question 25: 3. Where was gold first discovered in California?

Answer:

Sutter's Mill, American River

Question 26: 24. How and why did the business of mining change over time?

Answer:

When most to the surface gold was gone, businesses got land, bought equipment, and hired workers to find the gold. Soon only big businesses could afford to stay in business.