Native Americans
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Forty-niner Gold Miners
Credibility & Vocabulary
100
According to this group of people, "as far as they knew, they hadn’t done anything to deserve being driven from their homes" (1).
Who were the California Natives?
100
This "mineress" did not enjoy gold panning. She describes tearing her dress, her hands freezing, and becoming ill.
Who is Dame Shirley?
100
According to our Amplify text, this Hispanic man was a miner during the California Gold Rush.
Who is Ramón Gil Navarro?
100
These words and phrases describe the way that California's development differed from other states.
What is a "flying start"? What is a "blaze"? What is a "rocket fashion"? What is a "chain reaction"?
100
These two internet extensions often show that you have information that is relevant and credible.
What are .gov and .edu?
200
These are words that forty-niners used to describe the California Natives. Name at least two.
What is naked, dirty, wild, and bloodthirsty?
200
The male miners would spread this mineral in the dirt, to trick women into thinking they had found more gold than they had.
What is salt?
200
According to Ramón, this was his motivation for finding gold.
What is making a golden wedding ring?
200
According to the text, this is described as "the discovery of gold ... got California off to a flying start, and it set in motion the state's chain-reaction: an explosive, self-generating pattern of development..." (1).
What is the "magic equation" in California?
200
When you put two things side by side and mention the similarities and differences between them.
What is comparison and contrast?
300
According to Gold Haul Diggers, this is "the idea that it was God’s plan to expand America from the East to the West Coast, but the California Natives hadn’t heard it" (1).
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
According to Dame Shirley, "[Salt] gives strangers the wrong idea of the average richness of gold-bearing dirt" (7).
Why did the miners spread salt in the dirt?
300
Ramón Gil Navarro claims to have found this amount of gold in a single day.
What is 1,200 pesos worth of gold?
300
Because "in the confusion of the period, the American military commander 'prudently decided that he would permit all to work freely' in the diggings," the California Gold Rush also went by this name.
What is the "Poor Man's Gold Rush"?
300
This phrase means that you are comparing and "weighing" the good and bad of a certain decision or idea.
What are "pros and cons"?
400
This news source spread stories of Natives as wild savages and beasts.
What is the San Francisco Chronicle?
400
Dame Shirley found this amount of gold in a single basin-full of soil. This was considered to be a somewhat lucky prospect.
What is $3.25?
400
According to Ramón, this was regularly affecting him and his workers—and it was costing them all money.
What is illness or disease?
400
The California gold miners did NOT pay any of the "over $100,000,000" worth of gold to this government branch.
What is the federal treasury?
400
This word means that you have taken words and ideas from a source without crediting its original author.
What is plagiarism?
500
As early as April 1849, the newspaper Alta California predicted that in order for whites to mine gold, they would have to do this to the native population.
What is extermination?
500
According to Dame Shirley, this was the amount of gold found, on average.
What is $6 to $8 worth of gold?
500
According to Ramón, he encountered many of these in California.
What are snakes and poisonous animals?
500
Because of these rights, "every ounce of gold produced in California belonged to the state"—and technically, everyone owned the gold before it was dug up.
What is public domain?
500
These types of questions require explanation to fully answer, and they often have multiple answers.
What are open-ended questions?
600
These were offered when people sought out "Indian scalps, arms, and hands, or other proof of a dead Indian."
What are bounties?
600
These are ways that Dame Shirley would describe her experiences as a "mineress."
What is hard work? What is not a good way to make money?
600
According to Ramón, white miners did this to "Chileans, Peruvians, Mexicans, and anybody else who speaks Spanish".
What is throwing people out of camps?
600
According to The Magic Equation, "The rules adopted in the California camps carefully emphasized the policy of “one miner, one claim”: barred slavery from the mines; and based rights, not on ownership, which could not be established, but on prior discovery and use. These same rules also narrowly limited the size of mining claims. . . ." (5).
What is the "small mines claim" system?
600
This type of source comes from someone who witnessed an event.
What is a primary source?
700
In 1849, miners fought this native tribe, "raping several women, and shooting the men who tried to resist."
Who were the Maidu?
700
Dame Shirley uses this image to show her experience. She uses a specific phrase to describe this.
What is making "melancholy sacrifices"?
700
Upon breaking, Ramón describes his feelings for this object: "I am like a widower or, better, like a lover who has just lost the illusions of his loved one. My God!"
What is a guitar?
700
According to The Magic Equation, this many men "yielded $30,000 to $50,000 in gold daily" (4).
What is four hundred men?
700
This type of source includes an analysis or interpretation of primary sources, and may include parts from primary sources.
What is a secondary source?
800
This tribe met the American army in peace, but the soldiers—led by Captain N. Lyon—attacked, killing 135 men, women, and children.
Who were the Pomo?
800
"I am sorry I learned the trade, for I wet my feet, tore my dress, spoiled a pair of new gloves, nearly froze my fingers, got an awful headache, and caught cold."
What are examples of the "melancholy sacrifices" Dame Shirley names?
800
After his guitar breaks, Ramón considers getting a new one from this American city—an important one for its place in the California Gold Rush.
Where is San Francisco?
800
This is the purpose of the chapter The Magic Equation.
What is explaining how the gold rush impacted California as a state?
800
These requirements help to show that a source is credible. You need to name at least three requirements!
What is an expert author, a well-respected organization, factual information and evidence, recent updates, and a clearly stated identity?