Gold
What is the earliest record of cups and jewelry made from Gold?
What is as early as 3500BC
Who were the tribes who had their land taken from them by gold hungry explorers?
Who are the Incas and the Aztecs.
Which route of travel required careful planning and leaving in the Spring?
What is overland?
Was gold found in heavily populated areas or sparsely populated areas?
What is sparse?
What was the largest piece of gold discovered during the Australian gold rush?
What is an 82 pound nugget?
Why is gold valuable?
During which age did gold become so scarse?
What is the middle age?
Which was the fastest way to get to the gold fields.
What is the SEA
What was it difficult for these early gold mining communities because they were so new?
What is they had to set up their own government and laws.
What was the name of the two ships who steamed into San Fransisco Bay with men carrying bags filled with gold?
What are the Portland and Excelsior Ships?
What is a property of the mineral gold?
What is luster and hardness--gold is shiny and soft.
In which continent didn't the early explorers find any gold?
Which route required you to travel through a jungle?
What is the Panama Route?
What laws were most important to miners?
What are laws about staking a claim.
Which states had gold rushes during the 1900 century?
What are South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho.
What are the stories created from Greek and Roman myths?
What is King Midas and The Golden Fleece
Where did the first gold rush in America take place?
What is Georgia?
Which route was great if you had a lot of cargo?
What is the Cape Horn Route?
What was the punishment for capital crimes in the gold mining communities?
What is hanging?
How many million dollars were mined at the Alder Gulch mine in Montana?
What is 20 million dollars worth of gold?
In the middle ages who were the men who tried to unsuccessfully to make gold from minerals?
What are alchemists?
In which American states was gold discovered.
What is the western states.
In which route did the captain require the passengers to build a smaller boat for themselves?
What was the Yukon Alaska route.
What happened to many miners who weren't white skinning and english speaking?
They were frequently mistreated and not protected by the miners system of justice.
What happened to the Swed who was swindled for a worthless mine in Alaska?
What is he worked it and eventually found gold and 1,200,000 dollars were mined from it.