Test your basic knowledge |

Gold Rush Trivia

Instructions:

Answer 48 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Who was Levi Strauss?
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
Oro
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.

2. What are 3 methods of gold mining?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
They planted vegetables and sold them to the miners.
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
Hydraulic mining

3. What was the fastest way to get to California during the gold rush?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
James Marshall

4. What are 3 names of miners' camps?
Sourdough
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.
Coyote mining

5. What are 3 methods of gold mining?
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.

6. What method of mining was banned because it was harmful to the environment?
Coyote mining
Hydraulic mining
Oro
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.

7. What were the 3 main routes to get to California?
Land of fire.
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
Hydraulic mining

8. What is the Strait of Magellan?
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
Hydraulic mining
Because they rushed to California in 1849.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.

9. How is gold different from silver?
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.
Coyote mining

10. What was Mr. Marshall's occupation?
He was a carpenter.
January 24 - 1848
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.

11. Who was Levi Strauss?
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.

12. What is mining called that sinks deep shafts into the ground?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
January 24 - 1848
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
Coyote mining

13. What is the Strait of Magellan?
In the American River in Coloma
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
Because they rushed to California in 1849.
James Marshall

14. What did some Chinese men do to make money in the gold fields?
Hydraulic mining
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
They planted vegetables and sold them to the miners.

15. Who was president when gold was discovered?
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
They planted vegetables and sold them to the miners.
President James K. Polk
Hydraulic mining

16. What 3 things happened to California because of the gold rush?
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
James Marshall
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.

17. Where was gold discovered?
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.
In the American River in Coloma
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.

18. Why were gold miners called '49ers?'
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.
Because they rushed to California in 1849.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.

19. Who is credited with discovering gold?
In the American River in Coloma
He was a carpenter.
January 24 - 1848
James Marshall

20. What are 3 names of miners' camps?
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.
Because they rushed to California in 1849.

21. After the gold rush what did the miners do?
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
He was a carpenter.
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.

22. What does terra del feugo mean?
Hydraulic mining
Coyote mining
Land of fire.
James Marshall

23. What was another nickname for a gold miner.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
Sourdough
January 24 - 1848
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.

24. What method of mining was banned because it was harmful to the environment?
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
Hydraulic mining
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
Because they rushed to California in 1849.

25. Why were gold miners called '49ers?'
They planted vegetables and sold them to the miners.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
Because they rushed to California in 1849.

26. After the gold rush what did the miners do?
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
Land of fire.
A tailor who made heavy duty work pants for miners. We call them jeans.
Oro

27. What happened to the Native American population as a result of the gold rush?
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
Oro

28. Where was gold discovered?
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.
In the American River in Coloma
James Marshall
Coyote mining

29. What are some of the properties of gold?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
January 24 - 1848
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
January 24 - 1848

30. What are some of the properties of gold?
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.

31. How is gold different from silver?
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.
Hydraulic mining
President James K. Polk

32. What is mining called that sinks deep shafts into the ground?
Coyote mining
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.

33. On what date was gold discovered in California?
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
January 24 - 1848
Land of fire.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.

34. What is the Spanish word for gold?
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
Oro

35. What were the 3 main routes to get to California?
In the American River in Coloma
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
James Marshall

36. Who is credited with discovering gold?
James Marshall
Oro
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.

37. Who was John Sutter?
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
Hydraulic mining

38. On what date was gold discovered in California?
Hydraulic mining
Land of fire.
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
January 24 - 1848

39. What is the Spanish word for gold?
Coyote mining
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
Land of fire.
Oro

40. Who was John Sutter?
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
Land of fire.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
Hangtown - Angel Camp - Rattlesnake Diggings - Git Up and Git - Old Dry Diggings.

41. What did some Chinese men do to make money in the gold fields?
It is a dangerous short cut through Cape Horn.
Overland - around Cape Horn - and across the Isthmus of Panama
They planted vegetables and sold them to the miners.
Because they rushed to California in 1849.

42. What 3 things happened to California because of the gold rush?
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.

43. What was another nickname for a gold miner.
In the American River in Coloma
A businessman who employed James Marshall to build a sawmill.
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
Sourdough

44. What does terra del feugo mean?
James Marshall
Coyote mining
Land of fire.
Sourdough

45. What was Mr. Marshall's occupation?
Some stayed in California to start new businesses - some became farmers - others went back home?
Hydraulic mining
It is soft - easy to work with - and does not tarnish.
He was a carpenter.

46. What happened to the Native American population as a result of the gold rush?
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
It decreased because they were either pushed off their land or killed.
The population increased - prices of goods increased - and California eventually became a state.
In the American River in Coloma

47. What was the fastest way to get to California during the gold rush?
January 24 - 1848
Oro
Panning - using a rocker or long tom - and hydraulic mining.
To take the Isthmus of Panama route.

48. Who was president when gold was discovered?
Land of fire.
James Marshall
President James K. Polk
Gold is heavier - does not tarnish - and is more valuable.