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CA Gold Rush
Migration
Life in the Gold Fields
Boom towns
Gold and challenges!
100
This is a sudden move of people into a place where gold has been found.
What is a gold rush
100

These were the three routes that were used to get to California.

What is Panama, Cape Horn, and overland trail

100

This is where people mined for gold

What is rivers and tunnels

100

Rapidly built settlements that sprang up near mining areas.

What is "Boom towns"

100

Most miners left the gold rush feeling. 

What is disappointed with no gold

200
This is a person who took part in the California Gold Rush.
What is a forty-niner
200

This was the most expensive route to California.

What is the Panama route

200

This is where the most gold was found

Where is Coloma Grass Valley, Sierra Nevadas, and Sutters Mill

200

These people moved here to make it rich by selling things to the miners

What is a merchant or business owner

200

At first, people outside California did not believe the stories of gold. Then this person made a speech and confirmed that there was gold in California.

Who is President James Polk

300

This is why people, or 49ers, came to CA

What is gold mining

300

This was the least expensive route to California.

What is overland.

300
This is the unequal treatment of people because they are members of a certain group.
What is discrimination
300

These towns were towns that boomed after the gold rush and are still big cities in California today 

What is Sacramento and San Fransisco

300

These 2 things caused many miners to go back home with nothing

What is depletion of gold and businesses overcharging people

400

This is the year that gold was found in California.

When is 1848

400

This route took the most amount of time.

What is traveling by Cape Horn route

400

These were the main tools that miners used when they first started mining for gold.

What are the pan, pick, and long tom

400

These were five of the many languages that the immigrants spoke.

What are English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian

400

How much is 1 oz of gold back then worth today

What is $700

500

This person discovered gold in the this year.

Who is James Marshall in 1849

500

This route took the least amount of time.

What is traveling by Panama route

500

Gold eventually became hard to find because of this.

What is miners had already mined most of the gold.

500

These were five of the many languages that the immigrants spoke.

What are English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian

500

Died penniless and completely out of his mind.

How did James Marshall die