How it all happened
California was controlled by this country in 1839.
What is Mexico?
A settlement in a new land
What is a colony?
Many of the gold miners eventually found work in this city.
What is San Francisco?
This woman disguised herself as man called, "Mountain Charley" and worked as a prospector and a pack-mule trader.
Who was Elsa Jane Guerin?
The name of the river that gold was discovered in
Where is the American River?
This man was a frustrated storekeeper in Switzerland, who eventually headed out for California.
And one of the first discoverers of gold.
Who was John Sutter?
A person who settles in a new country
What is an immigrant?
This man became rich when he designed durable jeans that miners could wear while working.
Who was Levi Strauss?
This woman used her creativity to make a living. She built her own table, and her husband would come back and see 20 miners eating.
She called her hotel this...
Who was Luzena Wilson?
What was "El Dorado"?
This town gained popularity when Marshall's news of gold discovery spread...
What is Sacramento?
John Sutter made a deal with the Mexicans to build a fort to sell supplies to the many pioneers and settlers in the area.
He named this land...
What was "New Helvetia"?
This was chemical that was used in making soap
What is lye?
This man built wheelbarrows for the miners.
He earned the nickname, "Wheelbarrow Johnny".
Who was John Studebaker?
This woman build her own house, planted a large field of potatoes and began teaching school.
Who was Eliza Farnham?
Some locations in which people mined for gold......
What was:
*Weber's Creek
*Sierra Nevada mountains
* Black Gulch (near Yreka)
John Sutter bought this fort for $30,000. He bought this land because he needed a way to get materials to build his fort.
This fort was called...
What was Fort Ross?
A miner in the California Gold Rush
What is a forty-niner?
This man worked as a ditch digger in the California gold fields. Then he opened a successful butcher shop.
He started Armour and Company.
Who was Phillip Armour?
This woman realized the gold miners were starving for a little home cooking. She began making pies that she could sell to the miners.
Who as Mary Jane Caples?
A boomtown where miners came to gather supplies and trade. And soon became a ghost town when railroads were built in the 1880s and found that there wasn't a stop near this town......
What was Shasta?
(Just to note Shasta is now a deserted town where no one lives anymore.)
This employee helped Sutter build a sawmill on the American River.
He was the one who found the gold and called it, "blossom of gold"
Who was James Marshall?
Clay that was used for building bricks
What was adobe?
These men came to California as bankers. They offered transportation and mail deliveries to the hardworking miners, using stage coaches as a way to bring supplies to people all over the country.
They started this company.
Who was Henry Wells and William Fargo?
What was Wells Fargo?
(The stagecoach logo became a symbol of the Gold Rush)
When buyers and sellers freely agree to trade money or other items for goods.
What was voluntary exchange?