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Rumors of gold.
1850
A yellow precious metal.
What is gold?
A tool that is shaped like an axe on one side and a large metal pick on the other
What is a pickaxe?
An abandoned city.
What is a ghost town?
The discovery of gold that brings a massive amount of miners.
What is a gold rush?
1858
Natural deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead and other minerals found in mountains here in Colorado.
What is ore?
A technique to look for gold by crouching in the river and using a tin bowl shaped pan.
What is panning?
Many people would live in this area and it would quickly expand.
What is a boomtown?
100,000
How many gold seekers came to Colorado?
Gold Rush begins and miners invent new technqiues.
This occurs when there is a crack in a rock that allows the heavier minerals to fill it.
What is a mineral vein?
When miners would have a drill like tool in one hand and a hammer in the other to drill
into the the rocks.
What is Single Jacking?
Miners who came to Colorado.
59ers
1859
When did the Colorado Gold Rush begin?
What is the Front Range?
Towns lying on the foothills of the mountains, Fort Collins being an example.
A large amount or cache of minerals in the rock.
What is a motherload?
A long trough with slats on the bottom that could sit in a river and allow gold to fall into
the slats while dirt and debris flowed out the end.
What is a sluice box?
3 Branches of Government
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
Cherokee tribe
How did everyone know to come to Colorado to find gold?”
How were Native tribes treated from Gold Seekers?
Poorly, gold seekers took their land and mined their resources.
Owning and operating shops and services in Boomtowns
Women's impact on the Gold Rush
a specialized mining trough used during the Gold Rush to wash gold from dirt
What is Long Tom?
Phrase used by the 59ers.
“Pike’s Peak or Bust!"
People came to Colorado and grew our economy. This helped our state become a state.
How did the Gold Rush effect Colorado?