Mining for Gold
Gold was first discovered at Sutter's Mill in this city.
What is Coloma?
This method of getting to California took the longest, but it was also the cheapest and safest--if you don't get seasick that is.
What was all-water route around the horn?
This is now a major US city. Before the gold rush only about 800 people lived there. A year after the gold rush started the population grew to 35,000 people! Many of these entrepreneurs stayed in this city to started businesses to sell to the gold miners.
What is San Francisco?
This is the year California became a state.
What is 1850?
If it weren't for me, the forty-niners wouldn't have denim jeans to wear while mining.
Who was Levi Strauss?
People like me were given this nickname because of the year many of us traveled to CA.
What is forty-niner?
At the beginning of the Gold Rush, this was the fastest way to California from the United States. People who used this route often got yellow fever.
What is using the shortcut through the Isthmus of Panama?
This city became the state capital in 1854. It was the center of gold country so many people moved here too.
What is Sacramento?
This new law made it necessary for rancho owners to prove that their land belonged to them.
What is the Land Act of 1851?
I was a former slave who made a fortune buying land in Los Angeles and helped start a school for African American children.
Who is Biddy Mason?
To do this, just hammer wooden stakes into the ground. You better make sure the land doesn't already belong to someone else.
How to stake a claim?
If you used this method of travel you could take your entire family, but had to deal with mountains, deserts, and rivers.
What is the overland route?
Since the gold miners did not own land they didn't have to do this.
What is pay taxes?
Because many they often didn't speak English and only had hand-drawn diseños which were often incorrect, this happened to many rancho owners because of the Land Act of 1851.
What is lose all or some of their land?
I was the first governor of California.
Who was Peter H. Burnett?
Everything cost so much during the gold rush. When a person found gold they often had to spend it all on simple things like food and clothing. This was caused by high demand and low supply.
What was inflation?
Many people from this country came to the Gold Rush because life in their country was hard. They often did some of the most dangerous jobs during the Gold Rush.
What is China?
Because gold miners did not pay taxes, the state of California couldn't do this.
What is pay its bills?
Representatives from California met in 1849 to discuss United States statehood.
What is the Monterey Convention?
I was a military leader who called for the Monterey Convention.
Who was Bennet Riley?
Although there weren't very many women in the gold camps, many women became wealthy entrepreneurs opening these kinds of businesses.
What are hotels, restaurants, and laundries?
This waterway could be used to save time around the tip of South America. It is very curvy and difficult to sail through.
What was the Strait of Magellan?
This is what banks in other states said when California asked them for a loan so they could pay their bills.
What is no?
This was written during the Monterey Convention.
What is the California State Constitution?
I was an entrepreneur. I owned a shoe store and then I helped to start the first black owned newspaper in California called The Mirror of the Times.
Who was Mifflin Gibbs?