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Vocabulary
Comprehension I
Comprehension II
Comprehension III
Vocabulary Power
100
calls to; attracts or lures
What is beckons
100
The 49ers were prospectors during the _________ gold rush.
What is Caifornia
100
The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was ________ the California gold rush.
What is fifty years after
100
It was important to register a land claim because then the prospector could do all of the following with land except_______
What is claim jump
100
Grandma _________ to her grandchildren to come inside for cookies.
What is beckons
200
payment for travel
What is fares
200
The gold found just below the ground's surface was called
What is placer gold
200
Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to ____________
What is find a grubstake
200
What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
What is farm in the valley
200
We discovered an __________ old run-down farmhouse
What is abandoned
300
making money
What is profitable
300
What is the advantage of using hydraulic mining when mining for gold?
What is It allows them to mine gold located deep in the hard rock deposits
300
What does the expression "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
What is You discovered something useful or profitable
300
Each year at school we have a ____________ month in which we study about people from different parts of the world.
What is multicultural
400
rough, uneven
What is rugged
400
According to this selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because ________________
What is it was safer and they could help each other along the way
400
A prospector could leave his tools on the ground of unsettled land as a way of _____________
What is staking a claim to the land
400
The babysitting business we started made us money and was very _____________
What is profitable
500
deserted; left alone
What is abandoned
500
Name three reasons people moved to the unsettled West in the early 1800s
What is 1. land in the East was getting expensive 2.eastern cities were getting crowded 3.people wanted to own their own land
500
Airplane _______ are always more expensive during the holiday season
What is fares