Vocabulary
California Gold Rush
Prospectors
Gold
100
calling to
What is beckons
100
The name of the person who found the gold by accident.
What is James Marshall.
100
The two reasons why many people traveled in wagon trains out west.
What is it was safer and people could help each other along the way.
100
The gold just below the ground's surface.
What is placer gold.
200
Showing the different religions and beliefs.
What is muticutural ?
200
The name of the prospectors during the California Gold Rush.
What is the forty-niners.
200
What some prospectors needed to do before they started to mine.
What is to find a grubstake. DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!! What is a grubstake?
200
True or False; Gold is 8 times lighter than sand and stones.
What is false; gold is actually 8 times heavier than sand and stone.
300
rough or uneven
What is rugged Daily Double!!!! What is the meaning of the word cradle in the text?
300
The year in which the California Gold Rush take place.
What is 1849. Daily Double!!!!! What is the difference in years from the time period of the California gold rush and the Klondike gold rush?
300
The name that new gold miners were called , according to the text.
What is greenhorns.
300
What did the prospectors do when the supply of gold began to run out and they wanted to get the gold that remained.
What is they needed to work for big companies that used big expensive equipment to get the gold. Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Name the large, expensive equipment used by miners when they were hired by a large company to search for gold.
400
Left behind
What is abandoned
400
What many of the former miners in California decide to do for work.
What is farm in the valley.
400
Name the three basic mining tools used by a prospector.
What is a shovel, a pick, an a pan.
400
The three forms of gold found during the gold rush.
What is small flakes, nuggets, or dust.
500
Bringing advantage or momentary again.
What is profitible
500
The reason why a prospector would leave his tools on the ground of unsettled land.
What is to claim the piece of the land as their own
500
The three things a prospector could do after registering a land claim.
What is prove ownership and buy and sell their property.
500
The advantage of using hydraulic mining when mining for gold.
What is it allows miners to mine gold located deep in hard rock deposits.