The California Gold Rush: Cause and Effect Worksheet Download
Free social studies worksheets about the California Gold Rush. Students read about the forty-niners, mining towns, and what the rush meant for Native Californians, then connect causes and effects.
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Cause and Effect
Each worksheet has a short passage about the California Gold Rush followed by 5 questions, including cause and effect questions.
About this worksheet
Each worksheet has a short passage about the California Gold Rush followed by 5 questions, including cause and effect questions.
Student objectives
- Explain how the discovery of gold changed California
- Describe life in a mining town
- Connect events in a passage to their causes and effects
Everyday practice
- Find Sutter's Mill and San Francisco on a map of California
- Talk about why prices go up when many people want the same thing
- Notice cause and effect words like because and so when reading