Ch 6, Lesson 1 - The Gold Rush

Question 1

gold rush

Answer 1

huge movement of people going to a place to look for gold

Question 2

Sam brannan

Answer 2

traveled from San Francisco to Coloma to see if the stories about gold

Question 3

Forty Niners

Answer 3

men and some women who traveled to California in search of gold.

Question 4

Isthmus

Answer 4

narrow piece of land that connects two larger land aeas

Question 5

claim

Answer 5

area a miner said belonged to him or her. miners marked off claim they put wooden stakes or posts around it. This was called staking a claim

Question 6

Louise Clappe

Answer 6

moved with her husband from New England to the mining camps wrote about the truth of the gold rush

Question 7

the 2nd route to California was by ship

Answer 7

it was the longest route and could take 3-8 months

Question 8

Coloma

Answer 8

The banks of the American River

Question 9

james Marshall

Answer 9

a worker at Sutter Mill who found the first gold nugget

Question 10

John Sutter

Answer 10

had decided to build a sawmill hired workers while his workers were working they found the first gold nugget Marshall quickly reported the discovery to Sutter who tested the gold and it was gold

Question 11

How did the lives of of Sutter workers change after they learned about gold

Question 12

john sutter

Question 13

how where africian americans part of the gold rush?

Answer 13

some came on their own. Others came as slaves from the south to mine gold. sometimes an owner would left a slave free if he found $2000 worth of gold.

Question 14

1st route to California - isthmus of panama

Answer 14

narrow piece of land that connects North American and South America

Question 15

how did forty niners travel across the isthmus

Answer 15

riverboat, mules and foot

some died in the hot climate. It they made it to the Pacific coast they caught ships to California

Question 16

what were the 3 main routes to California from the United States

Answer 16

Isthmus of Panama

by ship

by land

Question 17

3rd route to California-overland route

Answer 17

overland travelers had to cross deserts and mountain ranges. the challenges they faced were accidents, illnesses, lack of food and water

Question 18

where did most 49ers come from

Answer 18

the US, Mexico, South America, Europe, Austrialia and Asia

1 and 4 gold seekers where chinese

Question 19

what was the name chinese used for California gold rush

Answer 19

Gum Sam (Gold Mountain)

Question 20

why did most 49ers head to California

Answer 20

to get rich quickly and return home. Some came to escape wars and other hardships in their homelands

Question 21

Lu Ng

Answer 21

gold seeker who traveled from china to California because his crops had failed and flood had ruined his fields

Question 22

what were the methods of searching for gold

Answer 22

dug wtih shovels, picks

used metal pans to search in rivers and streams. scoops up river, sand and gravel in shallow pan.

sometimes worked together with tool called babys craddle

Question 23

how did louise clappe account of the gold rush different from earlier reports

Answer 23

earlier reports - miners got rich fast

clappe - miners could work really hard and still be poorer in the end. it was chance or luck to become rich

Question 24

what are mining camps

Answer 24

camps set up where miners thought gold was.

Question 25

how was life hard at the mining camps

Answer 25

tents and shacks didn’t offer protection from rain, wind, and cold weather.

dirts streets filled with trash

little food and medicine

Question 26

what did miners do for entertaining

Answer 26

play cards, read books, play music and sing songs, sit and talk.

Question 27

how did miners spend Sundays

Answer 27

rest from mining

went to religious services

cleaning, doing chores and mending clothes

Question 28

when was gold discovered in california