People
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Mining Methods
Enviornment
100
Who is the man whose workers left his fort to find gold?
Who is John Sutter
100
What is a nugget?
What is a piece of gold or other valuable metal
100
What is a prospector?
What is a person who looks for minerals, such as gold.
100
What is one of the first ways prospectors found placer gold?
What is digging building a flume panning
100
What is natural resources did miners need?
What is timber and water
200
Who is the man who went to the California Constitutional Convention to talk about women and Indian rights?
Who is Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
200
What is a mining camp?
What is a place where miners work and live
200
What is an ecosystem?
What is a community of plants, animals, and their surroundings that depend on each other.
200
How were the new ways of mining different from the old ways of mining gold?
What is the old ways used simple tools like pans and flumes. The new way used large equipment and required more men.
200
What were the differences in changing the land when panning for gold versus the new methods?
What is panning for gold left holes and muddy water. The new methods destroyed mountains, put mercury in the water and land, killed fish, and left debris in rivers.
300
Who observed life in a mining camp and witnessed changes in mining methods?
Who is Louise Clapp
300
What is a squatter?
What is a person who lives on land or in a building without permission.
300
What is a Californio?
What is an early California colonist with Mexican and Spanish descent.
300
Who was affected by hydraulic mining?
What is farmers, merchants, and townspeople
300
What happened to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's land after the Gold Rush?
What is his land was sold to squatters.
400
What were some points that miners brought up in the debate?
What is they had rights to the river since they were there first. Other people dump debris in the rivers too. Farmers dump debris in the rivers. Nature is the cause of the debris in rivers not mining.
400
What is a raised bank beside a river formed naturally or built to control flooding?
What is a levee
400
What is a delegate?
What is a person chosen to act for or represent others.
400
What was the court's decision about hydraulic mining?
What is they issued an injunction to stop hydraulic mining.
400
How did the Gold Rush change farming in the state?
What is wheat became the more important crop. Not cattle.
500
What was the farmers, merchants, and townspeople's point of view in the debate?
What is the debris is burying their land, so they can't grow crops. The land is becoming worthless and water quality is affected. The San Francisco Bay is filling up with debris and fish are dying. Ships can't travel up the rivers. The towns are flooding. Buildings and sewers are getting destroyed. Rivers are now muddy and filled with debris.
500
What is a injunction?
A court order that requires somebody to do or stop doing something.
500
What are tailings?
What is the stones, sand, and soil left over after mining.
500
What were the differences in the number of men it took to mine in the new way versus the old way?
What is the old way took few men, whereas the new way took many men.
500
Hydraulic mining made ______________.
What is rivers and streams shallow, fish die, and farmers angry.
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