Gold Rush 1
This carpenter sparked the California Gold Rush when he spotted something shiny in the American River in 1848.
Who was James Marshall?
Travelers from the East Coast often sailed to this Central American country, crossed its jungles, and boarded ships north to San Francisco.
What is Panama
Mad Mule Gulch, You Bet, and Coyote Diggings are all examples of these temporary settlements that popped up overnight.
What is mining camps?
Almost all forty-niners shared this demographic characteristic, making women extremely rare in early boomtowns.
What is being male (or men)?
Settlers from this Asian country were among the foreign gold-seekers who braved the Pacific Ocean crossing to reach California.
What is China?
By 1851, many miners wanted to do this, but they lacked the money to afford it.
What is Going home?
Miners spent long days standing knee-deep in icy streams sifting through mud, dirt, and stones to find gold.
What is sifting/digging for gold?
The California Gold Rush came to an end by this year.
1852
According to a local minister, gold-seekers rushed off to the mines on horses, on carts, and even on these.
What are crutches?
Approximately this fraction of all forty-niners were Americans.
What is 2/3rds?
Due to high inflation in camp markets, merchants could charge up to $400 for a barrel of this staple item.
What is flour?
In Coyote Diggings, streets originally lined with canvas tents quickly became filled with drinking saloons and tables for this activity.
What is Gambling?
This year became the namesake for the tens of thousands of gold-seekers who flooded into California.
What is 1849? (or Who were the forty-niners?)
Gold-seekers from China and Australia had to brave the rough crossing of this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
In boomtowns lacking official law enforcement, miners frequently fought over the boundaries of these.
What are claims?
Luzena Wilson reported living in this city for six months while seeing only two other women.
What is Sacramento?