Gold
It is a method people used to use to find gold in rivers
What is panning?
The capital of California
What is Sacramento?
1849
What year did the forty-niners come?
The religion of the Utah Settlers
What is Mormonism?
The nickname for the people who panned for gold during the gold rush
What are forty-niners?
Aluminium was more valuable than gold because it was harder to refine
Which was more valuable, aluminium or gold?
It is the year California became a state
What is 1850?
China, Mexico, South America, Europe and Australia
What countries did the forty-niners come from?
The founder of the Mormon Religion
Who is Joseph Smith?
Discovered gold at Sutter's mill, starting the California Gold Rush
What is James Marshall?
This mineral is often confused with gold, which has earned it the nickname: "Fool's Gold"
What is Pyrite?
The name of the Mexican citizens of California that resided in California after the end of the Mexican-American war.
What are the Californios?
The forty-niners of the Gold Rush are often confused with this group of people
What are the San Francisco 49ers?
The city in Illinois where the Mormons fled to and renamed.
What is Navoo, Illinois?
By late 1849, this amount of people were mining for gold in California
What is 80,000?
It is 19.3 g/cm3
What is the density of gold
This popular place was a refuge for settlers settling in California before it was abandoned following the discovery of gold
What is Sutter's fort?
This presently popular city became a boomtown in the California with about this many people residing in it during the Gold Rush
What is San Francisco and 20,000?
The Book of Mormon, which included the translation of the plates he received from the angel
What book was published by Joseph Smith?
1852 was the peak of the Gold Rush
What year was the peak of the Gold Rush?
A solution of hydrochloric acid (HCl) and nitric acid (HNO3) that can dissolve gold
What is aqua regia?
Initially prevented California from becoming a state, and tried to prevent slave owners from losing slaves to freedom
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The full name of the man who made sturdy pants, later to be known as blue jeans, for miners, earning him a fortune. His brand is still popular today
What is Levi Strauss?
Brigham Young
Who lead the Mormons after Joseph Smith died?
Sea, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe trail.
What were the routes the forty-niners used to get to California?