Prospectors

Question 1

name the problems due to difficult conditions (3)

Answer 1

1) very isolated, no towns nearby
2) poor diets , many contracted scurvy , dysentery and diarrhoea
3) moved there by themselves due to no churches or schools for families

Question 2

name the problems due to finding gold(4)

Answer 2

1) miners would ‘stake a claim’ where they’d jump on a claim if gold was found at a river
2) ‘salting a claim’ where men would place flecks of gold in rivers and sell to prospectors overpriced
3) most miners made $3 a day
4) tension as more Mexican and Chinese migrants arrived due to towns developing so many competed for the same job

Question 3

name the social problems( 3)

Answer 3

1) isolated without towns or families
2) small towns developed where fights, gambling and murder was common
3) migrants increased, many competed for the same job

Question 4

name the problems with law and order(5)

Answer 4

1) ‘staking a claim’
2) ‘salting a claim’
3) fights gambling and murder was common in small towns
4) unemployed men turned to crime, no local sheriffs
5) judges and courts set up however this led to more anger due to whipping and hangings

Question 5

what happened to immigration in 1852

Answer 5

chinese population. went from 2000 in 1851 to 20,000 in 1852

chinese would work for less which got them hired

this led to racism and violence