People of the Gold Rush
These people were given this nickname during the California Gold Rush.
Who were 49ers?
This is the state where the Gold Rush took place.
Where is California?
The name for when a miner wanted to protect the area where they found gold.
What is staking a claim?
Where most miners slept.
This was the year that California officially became a state.
What is 1850?
This person owned the sawmill where gold was first found.
Who was John Sutter?
Known as a place to cut lumber, this was the location of the beginning of the Gold Rush.
What was John Sutter's sawmill?
The disease miners got because they ate mostly meat and bread, and not many fruits or vegetables.
What is scurvy?
The most profitable job to have during the Gold Rush.
What is a merchant?
This population of people decreased drastically during the California Gold Rush.
Who were the Native Americans?
This person created pants with durable pockets for miners.
Who was Levi Strauss?
This was the year the California Gold Rush began.
When was 1848?
This was one of the tools that miners used to find gold.
What is a pickaxe, shovel, pan, rocker, long-tom, millrace.
Also accepted: dynamite or high-powered hose (hydraulic mining.)
How much higher were the prices that miners charged for goods?
What is 10% - 20%?
This company got its start by transporting gold, money, and belongings for people across the overland routes.
What is Wells Fargo?
This person was the first to find gold.
Who was James Marshall?
These were the ways that people traveled to California in search of gold.
What are by ship and across land?
The amount of money typically made by a miner in one day.
What is $10 - $12?
Examples of goods that merchants sold.
What are mining supplies, food, tools, tents, and clothes?
Some examples of things that were built in California because of the Gold Rush.
What are roads, railroads, schools, churches, and stores?
This is the number of people who arrived in California in 1849.
What is 90,000?
These are the dangers faced by argonauts traveling to California across the United States.
What are bad weather, difficult trails, diseases, and lack of supplies?
1 in 5 miners did this within their first 6 months of being in California.
What is died?
The reason that most miners did not become rich?
What are high prices for supplies and food?
The type of mining that destroyed hillsides and killed wildlife?
What is hydraulic mining?