Geography
In 1848, gold was discovered at...
What is Sutter's Mill?
Fortune Seekers were known as...
What are 49ers (or Forty-Niners)?
After shaking the pan for a while, what could be on the bottom of the pan?
What is gold?
What is the name of an area where miners 'picked their spot'?
What is a claim?
What year did California become a state?
What is 1850?
What were two of the boom towns in California?
What is San Francisco, Stockton, Marysville, or Sacramento?
What is the name for people who started businesses to provide goods and services needed?
What are entrepreneurs?
What two materials do miners put into pans to look for gold?
What are sand/gravel/sediment/dirt and water?
What term best describes the high prices during the Gold Rush?
What is inflation?
What result came from the Monterey Convention?
What is a written constitution for California?
Why is Coloma, California important to the Gold Rush?
Who was Levi Strauss?
Who is a businessman who worked to make denim pants for miners?
What did typical supplies for a miner include?
What is a typical miner's supplies included tools like pickaxes, shovels, pans, and chisels for digging and separating minerals, as well as essential living supplies such as food, bedding, a tent, and a lamp?
What is the word used when a good is hard to find?
What is scarce?
Many people that went to California were Americans, however, some came from many different places. Name two places that some people came from.
What are places like China, Europe, South America, Hawaii, or Mexico?
What town was the Wells Fargo Bank located in?
What is Bodie, CA?
What happened to the indigenous people who were already living in California at the time of the Gold Rush?
What is they were attacked and forced off their land?
How did miners show that they had staked a claim?
What is physically marking the boundaries of the land they were claiming, often using monuments like stone mounds, wood posts, or metal posts, and by filing a notice of location with local authorities?
What are the names for the three main routes people used to get to California?
What are the Oregon-California Trail, the Cape Horn route, and the Panama Route?
Who was the first governor of California?
Who is Peter H. Burnett?
What is the name for one of the most harmful mining methods?
What is hydraulic mining?