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4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 8

Gold Rush & Statehood

1848, 1849 and 1850

What your child practices

Routes to California, the Gold Rush and its effects on settlements, newcomers and California Indians, Biddy Mason and other women of early California, the Bear Flag Revolt, the 1849 constitution and statehood in 1850.

California Content Standards learning standard: 4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; 4.3.5 · early settlements, routes to California, the effects of the Gold Rush, women who built early California, and how California became a state

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    California joined the Union as a…

    • free state, with slavery banned
    • territory of Mexico
    • slave state
    • colony of Spain

  2. Question 2

    James Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill in…

    • October 1929
    • January 1848
    • July 1776
    • May 1869

  3. Question 3

    Merchants who sold supplies to miners often…

    • lost all their money
    • made more money than most miners
    • gave everything away
    • never sold anything

  4. Question 4

    Which simple tool did many miners use to find gold in streams?

    • a computer
    • a pan
    • a drill press
    • a jackhammer

  5. Question 5

    California's first state constitution was written in both…

    • English and French
    • only Latin
    • English and Spanish
    • only Chinese

  6. Question 6

    Women who helped build early California included…

    • only soldiers
    • no one
    • only presidents
    • Biddy Mason and Luzena Wilson, who ran businesses

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