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Who did California belong to in 1848?
Native Americans
What’s the population of San Francisco in 1870?
150,000
When did the California gold rush start?
24th January 1848
The Native Americans lost their lands and many died from diseases like ______.
influenza
Who was the first man to find gold?
James W Marshall
How many gold-seekers walked to California?
150,000
Who told the world that there was gold in California?
James Polk
How did they call the early gold-seekers?
forty-niners
Where did Marshall discover the gold?
Sutter’s Mill in California
California wasn’t an American State when Marshall found the gold. True or False?
True
About _______ people travelled in California between 1848 and 1855.
300,000
Who brought the disease Influenza to Native Americans?
Europeans
The gold rush changed ________.
California
The population of ______ grew from 1000 in 1848 to 150,000 in 1870.
San Francisco
How did the gold rush change California?
1) The population grew. 2) A railway line was built. 3) The Native Americans lost their lands and many died from diseases.
When did the forty-niners start their journey to California?
1849
