1. The California Gold Rush
Chapter 13 Section 4
The California Gold Rush

2. Section 4 Terms and Names
Forty-niner
Californio
Mariano Vallejo
John Sutter
James Marshall
California Gold Rush

3. Section 4 Terms and Names
Forty-niner – This was the term used for people who traveled to California in 1849 in the search for gold.
Californio – settlers of Spanish or Mexican decent that were living in California, typically were cattle ranchers.

4. Section 4 Terms and Names
3) Mariano Vallejo – a Californio who owned 250,000 acres of land. He claimed that the Californios were the settlers of the Pacfic Coast while George Washington was fighting the British. 4) John Sutter – California business owner. He was digging a water way for a saw mill when they found gold. He tries to keep the location secret.

5. Section 4 Terms and Names
5) James Marshall – Carpenter hired by John Sutter, who found the gold. 6) California Gold Rush – A period when thousands of people from around the world came to California in the hope of getting rich.

8. Section 4 Objective Questions 1-6
Who was living in California before the Gold Rush.
What is a Californio?
What role did Marshall and Sutter have in the gold rush?
What is a gold rush?
How did gold seekers get to the gold fields?
How difficult was the trip to California?

9. Section 4 Objective Questions 1-6 Answers
Who was living in California before the Gold Rush?
Roughly 150,000 Native Americans and 6,000 Californio’s.
2) What is a Californio?
A Californio is a person of either Spanish or Mexican decent living in the California area.

10. Section 4 Objective Questions 1-6 Answers
3) What role did Marshall and Sutter have in the gold rush? John Sutter was the land owner and James Marshall was the carpenter hired to build the saw mill were gold was found. 4) What is a gold rush? A gold rush is when people from around the globe move to an area that gold has been discovered in with the dreams of getting rich.

11. Section 4 Objective Questions 1-6 Answers
5) How did gold seekers get to the gold fields? There were several options for travel: walking, wagons, or boat. It depended on where they were coming from and how much money they had. 6) How difficult was the trip to California? It all depended on how much money the people had. The more you had the easier the trip was going to be.

12. Section 4 Objective Questions 7-12
7) What was life like in mining towns? 8) Which countries did non-American miners come from? 9) How were foreign miners treated? 10) What impact did the gold rush have on the economy of California? 11) How were people already living in California affected by the gold rush? 12) What impact did the statehood of California have on the slavery issue in the United States?

13. Section 4 Objective Questions 7-12 Answers
7) What was life like in mining towns? Life in the mining towns was difficult. People lived in tents with dirt roads, no running water and poor sanitation. Thief was high especially if it was rumored that you had gold. 8) Which countries did non-American miners come from? Miners came from: Mexico, Europe, South America, Australia, and China.

14. Section 4 Objective Questions 7-12 Answers
9) How were foreign miners treated? Foreign miners were treated poorly, especially if they were doing well mining. They would be physically forced from their mines or when California became a state a $20 a month tax on foreign miners were passed, which few could afford. 10) What impact did the gold rush have on the economy of California? The impact was both good and bad. With the large number of people moving into the area businesses grew rapidly to meet the needs of the people. On the bad side of the things people who had been living and working in California could loose their land and be treated as second class citizens as the population grew.

15. Section 4 Objective Questions 7-12 Answers
11) How were people already living in California affected by the gold rush? It depended on what they were providing. If they were a service business they probable expanded. If they were large land owners they could loose the land they had because of the large increase in population. 12) What impact did the statehood of California have on the slavery issue in the United States? Up until California became a state the balance of power was equal between the North and South. California entered the Union as a free state, which swung the balance of political power to the North.

18. Chapter 13 Section 4 Quiz
In California in the 1840’s, Mariano Vallejo was
A Californio who owned thousands of acres of land.
A Spanish mission where gold was discovered in 1848.
The Mexican governor who was overthrown by American settlers.
D) A Mexican law that American settlers believed deprived them of their rights.
2) Which two men are most closely linked to the discovery of gold in California?
John Sutter and John Fremont?
James Marshall and John Sutter?
John Marshall and Mariano Vallejo?
John Fremont and James Marshall?
3) Who were the Californios?
African Americans who mined in the California gold fields?
Miners from China who came to California to search for gold?
Californians who revolted against the Mexican rule?
Californians of Mexico or Spanish descent?

19. Chapter 13 Section 4 Quiz
4) By which route did miners reach California?
Overland trails across America.
Sail to Isthmus of Panama, cross overland, then sail to California.
Sail around South America and up the Pacific coast to California.
Any one of these routes could be taken to California.
5) People who went to California during the gold rush were known as?
Californios
Confederates
Forty-niners
Panama Jack