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Gold Rush Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge on California's Historical Event

Join Mrs. Jansen for a fun trivia game on the Gold Rush era in California. Answer true or false questions, vocabulary challenges, and identify key figures from that time. Can you come out on top with your knowledge of this exciting period in history?

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Gold Rush Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge on California's Historical Event

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  1. Jeopardy Hosted by Mrs. Jansen

  2. Mixed Bag O’ Gold Vocab True or False? Who Am I? 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

  3. Row 1, Col 1 What is slavery? the practice of owning people and forcing them to work

  4. 1,2 What is true? Gold was first found at Sutter’s sawmill.

  5. 1,3 Who is Levi Strauss? Entrepreneur who made rugged denim pants for miners

  6. 1,4 What is false? True or False? Because of the Gold Rush, a sawmill was built in Coloma.

  7. 2,1 What is a boomtown? A town that grows rapidly as a result of a new business

  8. 2,2 What is true? Fort Ross was a Russian trading post.

  9. 2,3 Who is James Marshall? Discovered gold in California in 1848 setting off the gold rush

  10. 2,4 What is 1848? The year gold is discovered in California

  11. 3,1 What is a pioneer? A person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country

  12. 3,2 What is false? Many settlers took the El Camino Real to get to California in the early 1800’s.

  13. 3,3 Who is Mary Tape? Chinese American who challenged California law on public school admission

  14. 3,4 What is petition? This vocabulary word means to officially ask someone to do something.

  15. 4,1 What is ratify? To officially approve

  16. 4,2 What is false? Sutter’s Fort was located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

  17. 4,3 Who is John C. Fremont? Explorer of the West who made maps of the area

  18. 4,4 Who was Sam Brannan? The name of the man who ran through the streets of San Francisco with a bottle of gold dust trying to get people excited about the Gold Rush.

  19. 5,1 What is an entrepreneur? A person who starts a new business with the hope of making money

  20. 5,2 What is false? Biddy Mason petitioned for her right to vote.

  21. 5,3 Who is Helen Hunt Jackson? Writer best known for her works about the treatment of American Indians

  22. 5,4 What is 1841? The year Sutter’s Fort is built

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