Characters
This is the person who is 12 years old and sales to the gold fields.
Jack Flagg
The main characters have to work in the coal bunkers of the ship because...
Someone stole their money to buy tickets for the ship.
Gold was first discovered where?
Sutter's Mill (Sutter's Fort, Sacramento)
Gold was FIRST discovered in what year?
1848
"Oh I shouldn't like to be anything but a butler. Not for a moment. I was born to my calling, like my father before me, and his father before him."
Praiseworthy
This person is related to the main character and stays back in Boston to try to save their home.
Aunt Arabella
How does Praiseworthy figure out who stole their ticket money on the ship?
He coats a pig in coal dust and has all the passengers touch him with the lights off to see if the pig squeals. The one who didn't touch it would be the thief.
This term means fear or hatred of outsiders.
Xenophobia
In the year 1849, a large group of people rushed to California and they were called...
the 49ers
"My dearest Aunt, by this time you have found my note on the tea service and learned that we have headed off for the gold fields of California!"
Jack
This person has an eyepatch and likes to steal things like maps.
Cut-Eye Higgins
What idea does Praiseworthy come up with to solve the problem with the rotting potatoes and dried up grape cuttings?
He convinces Azariah Jones to sell the potatoes to Monsieur Gaunt and use them to water the grape cuttings.
Hydraulic mining
the Foreign Miner's Tax
"Stowaways! By grabs, I'll skin them alive! I'll put them in chains! Where are they!"
Captain Swain
This person is big and strong and challenges Praiseworthy to a fight.
The Mountain Ox
How did the main characters FIRST earn gold dust when they arrived?
They cut miners' beards and panned the beard hair for gold.
This company used stage coaches to deliver mail and packages before the creation of the railroad.
Wells Fargo
By the year 1853, most of the _________ (another word for surface) gold was gone.
placer
"Rio was too hot for me, you might say. So I lit out for Panama. And looks like a beat you to California at that."
Cut-Eye Higgins
This is the name of a pig that becomes friends with the main character.
Good Luck
What does the main character accidentally buy at the auction in San Francisco?
Neck ties
What problems in China caused many Chinese people to leave China to come to California?
Drought, floods, bad economy
The transcontinental railroad was completed in the year...
1869
"Put 'em in your pouch, boy! Easy--don't knock over your coffee."
Pitch-pine Billy