Great American Gold Rush Christina Fortuna 7 th grade Social Studies *If images are not cited they are Microsoft PowerPoint clipart

California Gold Rush According to Kidport.com by 1849 the gold rush was on. People from all over the United States and the World were rushing to California. People caught "Gold Fever" in the hope of striking it rich. Many gold seekers arrived expecting to find rivers overflowing with gold. Unfortunately, most found riverbanks crowded with miners. Most prospectors were previously storekeepers, cooks, carpenters, teachers, farmers or some other trade before heading to California in search of gold. By 1850, the mining country had become quite populated. Many of the immigrants ended up starting businesses, trading posts, importing goods to sell to miners, farming and ranching. They took advantage of the skills they brought with them. In the mid- 1850s gold was becoming very difficult to find. More people were making fortunes from selling supplies to miners, than the miners themselves. When silver was discovered in Nevada in 1859, the miners headed for Nevada. This ended the California Gold Rush. alifornia_Clipper_500.jpg/300px-California_Clipper_500.jpg

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What is a Polyglot? content/uploads/2011/01/Polyglot.jpg A polyglot refers to someone who is multilingual or fluent in multiple languages. Or a book being written in multiple languages conveying the same main idea such as the Bible. But it could also refer to the mixture or confusion of many languages put together. Polyglots often refer to the first three hundred or so Russian, Chinese, and Japanese who came over to strike it rich mining gold.

What is Agrarian? It is relating to land, and the division of land. It also pertains to the promotion of agricultural interest, and it is composed of or pertaining to farmers. It can also refer to rural or agricultural. And from fields of gold in the Gold Rush, most people turned to their fields to farm instead when they didn’t strike rich. The prospectors and polyglots turned to farming the fields, a skill they already knew how to do to keep their families alive. QvI/AAAAAAAABeg/tpDM5OQ0tvI/s400/005.jpg Pertains means to be related to, or applicable to.

What is Assay? Means to analyze a deposit of ore to determine the content of valuable minerals within. This was often used to sift through the rocks, and minerals in the riverbeds to find gold deposits in the Gold Rush. Due to so many prospectors moving to California in search of gold and sifting through many rivers side by side with hundreds of others most prospectors ended up empty handed. But this process continued to be used after the Gold Rush was over in 1859 when silver was discovered in Nevada and all the miners headed there hoping to strike it rich by finding silver deposits instead. content/uploads/2011/02/GOLD-1- popup.jpg

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