How it all happened
Gold Rush Vocabulary
Gold Rush Economy
On the Trail...
Random Trivia
100
California was controlled by this country in 1839.
What is Mexico?
100
A settlement in a new land
What is a colony?
100
Many of the gold miners eventually found work in this city.
What is San Francisco?
100
What weather phenomenon were we hit with?
What is a tornado?
100
What did Mr. Ruppert get surgery on
What is his leg?
200
This man was a frustrated storekeeper in Switzerland, who eventually headed out for California.
And one of the first discoverers of gold.
Who was John Sutter?
200
A person who settles in a new country
What is an immigrant?
200
This man became rich when he designed durable jeans that miners could wear while working.
Who was Levi Strauss?
200
What was the first river we crossed?
What is the Ohio River?
200
What grade did Mr. Lawrence teach in his student teaching?
What is 12th Grade?
300
What was "Sutter's Mill"?
300
Term for the development of buildings, processes, and businesses necessary for the establishment and improvement of society.
What is Infrastructure?
300
San Francisco's population boomed to about 30,000. What was San Francisco's population before this?
What is 200-500?
300
List three countries that participated in The Gold Rush
What is Mexico?
China
Chile
Venezuela
Germany
Italy
Brazil
300
Where did Mr. Lawrence go to College?
Where was Bloomsburg University?
400
What years did the Gold Rush start and end?
When is 1849-1854?
400
A miner in the California Gold Rush
What is a forty-niner?
400
About how much did a miner make a day?
What is $10-$15?
400
What was the first our first encounter on the trail?
What was ghost stories around the fire?
400
What month is Mr. Lawrence's Birthday?
When is November?
500
This employee helped Sutter build a sawmill on the American River.
He was the one who found the gold and called it, "blossom of gold"
Who was James Marshall?
500
A community that experiences sudden, explosive population and economic growth due to a massive nearby gold strike.
What was boomtown?
500
These men came to California as bankers. They offered transportation and mail deliveries to the hardworking miners, using stage coaches as a way to bring supplies to people all over the country.
They started this company.
Who was Henry Wells and William Fargo?
What was Wells Fargo?
(The stagecoach logo became a symbol of the Gold Rush)
500
What Sickness were we inflicted with?
What is Typhoid Fever?
500
What was the town that John Sutter settled in?
What is Coloma?