Gold Rush 1
This person owned the sawmill where gold was first found.
It was John Sutter.
These people were given this nickname during the California Gold Rush.
They were the 49ers
This was the year the California Gold Rush began.
The California Gold Rush began in 1948.
This is the state where the Gold Rush took place.
The Gold Rush took place in California.
The animal represented on the California flag.
It's a brown bear!
The capital city of California
The capital city of California is Sacramento.
This was the danger one in five miner faced during the Gold Rush.
There were two common ways to reach California.
Either through the California trail (horse or on foot) or by boat.
Most people slept in these on the way to the Gold Rush.
People slept in tents.
This was the number order in which California officially became part of the United States.
California became the 31st state of the US.
This person was the first to find gold.
This was one of the tools that miners used to find gold.
They used a pickaxe, a shovel, a pan, a knife...
This is the number of people who lived in San Francisco in 1950
In 1850, 20,000 people lived in San Francisco.
This is the river where gold was first discovered.
Gold was first found in the American River.
This is the number of people who lived in San Francisco in 1848
In 1848, a thousand people lived in San Francisco.
This is the name of the famous bridge in San Francisco.
The famous bridge in San Francisco in the Golden Gate.
This name was given to a town when its population grew very quickly.
It is called a boomtown.
This type of mining is no longer used due to damage to the environment.
What is hydraulic mining?
Known as a place to cut wood, this was the location of the beginning of the Gold Rush.
It was at John Sutter's sawmill.
This is the time it took to reach California.
It took nine months to reach California.
They were the real winners of the California Gold Rush.
It was the merchants who sold equipment to the miners.
This is the form in which gold was found by the miners.
This is what people needed to survive during the cold nights.
They needed blankets and food supplies.
This is other countries and parts of the world people came from to participate in the Gold Rush.
Mexico, China, South America, Europe...
This is the translation for "bateau à vapeur".
A steamship.