Vocab 1
What vocabulary word means: of high quality.
What is elegant?
Why were the miners called Forty-Niners?
They went to California in 1849.
Keith's mouth dropped as he was super __________ as he watched the magician.
What is impressed?
After Marshall discovers gold, what did Sutter ask Marshall to do?
To keep the discovery quiet and to himself. Tell no one.
Choose the Latin root that means "to do":
act
struct
mot
What is act?
What vocabulary word means: draw their attention away from their jobs.
What is distract?
Where was the gold near San Fransisco first discovered?
in a field
If you have more than enough money, you have an __________ of it.
What is abundance?
How did most easterners get to California?
They went by boat around South America.
Choose the Latin root that means "to move":
act
struct
mot
What is mot?
What vocabulary word means: a story without proof?
What are rumors?
How is gold similar to iron pyrite?
both are glittering yellow rocks.
Her dress was long, formal, beaded, and very ______ for the winter ball dance.
What is elegant?
What happened soon after President Polk made a speech that mentioned the gold in California?
Many people left their homes to look for gold in California.
Choose the Latin root that means "tooth":
dent
struct
cap
What is dent?
What vocabulary goes in the blank: We would call a ghost town ________ .
What is deserted?
Which way to get to California turned out to be a failure at the time?
Going by air.
Most 4th graders love recess. This is ___________ of many school children.
What is typical?
Why did the miners think their troubles were over when they got to California?
They had survived the journey and thought that they would become rich.
Choose the Latin root that means "head":
aud
struct
cap
What is cap?
Jamie was spreading ____________ that Jill's mom got into a car accident, which wasn't true.
What are rumors?
Why do you think the author wrote this story?
To inform about the gold rush that happened as part of our American history.
Magicians try to ______________ you so you look somwhwere else.
What is distract?
Name two things that killed many people who were going to California by land?
Many people died from cholera or due to accidents with guns.
Choose the Latin root that means "born":
nat
struct
doc
What is nat?