Getting to California
Many French travelers began their voyage to California from this French port.
What is Le Havre?
The discovery of gold in California began a worldwide rush in this year.
What is 1848?
Travelers on long sea voyages sometimes developed this disease caused by a lack of vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
This worker discovered gold first in a California stream.
Who is John Marshall?
Foreign miners were required to pay this amount each month for a mining license.
What is 20 dollars?
After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, many French travelers first arrived in this American city.
What is New York City?
Approximately this many French people traveled to California during the Gold Rush.
What is 30,000?
A typical wagon train traveling toward California contained approximately this many wagons.
What is 100 wagons?
John Marshall discovered gold on land owned by this Swiss immigrant.
Who is John Sutter?
During the winter of 1849, one of these common breakfast foods could cost one dollar.
What is an egg?
The longest and least expensive sea route took travelers around this dangerous point at the southern end of South America.
What is Cape Horn?
Many French people hoped to escape these three problems by moving to California.
What are unemployment, poverty, and political unrest?
Immigrants often abandoned these household objects when they needed to make their wagons lighter.
What are tables, cabinets, and other pieces of furniture?
John Sutter gave his large California agricultural settlement this name, meaning “New Switzerland.”
What is New Helvetia?
These businesspeople often made more money from the Gold Rush than the miners themselves.
Who were merchants?
Travelers could shorten their journey by crossing the jungle of this narrow land area connecting North and South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
This political event ended the rule of King Louis-Philippe and led to the creation of France’s Second Republic.
What is the French Revolution of 1848?
Travelers needed to cross the Rocky Mountains before the end of this season to avoid heavy snow.
What is summer?
Sutter wanted the gold discovery kept secret because he hoped the gold would help him solve this financial problem.
What were his debts?
San Francisco received this nickname because of its large French population and French culture.
What is the Paris of the Pacific?
Wagon trains crossed the Rocky Mountains through this famous mountain pass.
What is South Pass?
Rather than selecting only the poorest citizens, the French government used this lottery to send away political opponents.
What was the Loterie des lingots d'or?
Members of this famous expedition became trapped in the snow and died from cold and hunger.
What is the Donner expedition?
Beginning in 1854, French engineers used powerful streams of this substance to blast rock from the Sierra Nevada.
What is water?
This German-born merchant became famous for selling strong pants to miners, leading to the invention of blue jeans.
Who is Levi Strauss?