Discovery
Gold was discovered in this year.
What is 1848?
These are three main ways travelers came to California.
What is the land route, the sea route, and the sea-land-sea route?
Miners who came to CA during the gold rush became known by this name.
What are forty-niners?
The difference between the amount earned in running a business with the amount spent.
What is profit?
California had a convention to create a written plan of government called this.
What is a constitution?
Gold was first discovered at this now famous California site.
What is Sutter's Mill?
This route took the longest but was least expensive.
What is an overland route?
Upon arrival, miners needed to establish this so they had land of their own where they could search for gold.
What is a claim?
People who want to buy a good or service are called this.
What are consumers?
California was this number in the order of states entering the union.
What is 31st?
This man is credited with discovering gold in California.
Who is James Marshall?
These were two common dangers encountered by travelers to California during the gold rush.
What are disease, harsh weather conditions, rugged terrain, dangerous currents, food shortages, breakdown of equipment (wagon/ship)?
Searching for gold near the surface, miners used these simple metal containers to separate gold flakes from water, dirt, and other debris.
What are pans?
This man was known for buying pans in San Francisco and selling them at a much higher cost near the gold fields.
Who is Sam Brannan?
Northern and southern states disagreed over California becoming a state because of this important issue.
What is slavery?
This US President made a speech announcing the discovery.
Who is President James Polk?
The sea-land-sea route took travelers across this narrow strip of land connecting North and South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
When surface gold was gone, miners used more advanced technology such as this to access gold that was deeper in the ground.
What is hydraulic mining?
What are explosives such as dynamite (TNT)?
This man, whose family owned a textile business in New York, became known for making durable pants called jeans.
Who is Levi Strauss?
Southern states agreed to accept California into the union if northern states would agree to the Fugitive Slave Act. This guaranteed that these people would be returned to their owners.
Who are runaway slaves?
Daily Double!
Prospectors are said to have shouted this word, which means "I have found it", when they discovered gold. It eventually became California's state motto.
Daring captains might take this dangerous passage instead of going around Cape Horn.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
When boomtowns died out as quickly as they sprang up, they became known as this.
What are ghost towns?
Because of Californio laws protecting their rights, many of these became land and business owners during the gold rush.
Who are women?
This agreement between northern and southern states allowed California to enter the union.
What is the Compromise of 1850?