Routes to California
A huge movement of people going to look for gold.
The gold rush
These are the gold miners that arrived in California in 1849.
The forty-niners
An important meeting.
A convention
The places where they hunted, fished, and gathered food were sometimes ruined by mining.
California Indians
A person who buys a good or service.
A consumer
Gold was discovered here in 1848.
Sutter's Mill
This was the cause of the high prices of the California Gold Rush.
inflation
A vote to approve.
ratify
These people sold goods and services.
entrepreneurs
A plan of government including laws.
A constitution
This was the shortest route, but it took the longest time.
overland
How many women became successful during the gold rush?
Opening hotels, laundries, or restaurants
It was the first capital city of California.
Monterey
Levi Strauss was one of these people.
entrepreneurs
A person who sets up a new business.
An entrepreneur
This is the fastest route to California.
Isthmus of Panama
A person who takes the law into his or her own hands.
A vigilante
These were the features chosen to mark California's eastern border.
Sierra Nevada and Colorado River
These people usually stayed in dirty camps with other Forty-Niners.
miners
A person chosen to speak and act for the people who elected him or her.
A delegate
This route was 15,000 miles and 5 months long.
the sea route around Cape Horn
The area a miner said belonged to him or her.
A claim
This is the year California became a state.
1850
They were often forced off their land by miners.
California Indians
This was the result of California being declared a free state at eh Monterey Convention.
the Fugitive Slave Act