The California Gold Rush A Changing America Unit 6, Lesson 6

Vocabulary emigrants persecution abandon prospecting verified

emigrants Meanwhile, overland emigrants from the United States began to arrive in the valley. The emigrants wrote to relatives they left in their homeland. people who have left their own homeland to settle in a new one

persecution They had sailed around Cape Horn hoping to escape from the religious persecution they had experienced in the East. The Pilgrims left England to escape persecution. the mistreatment or harassment of a person or group of people

abandon They discovered enough to abandon their regular work and begin mining in earnest. Settlers would often abandon their houses when they moved westward. to give up something; to stop working on something

prospecting Those who already had been prospecting displayed their pouches of gold dust as they prepared to dig for more. After two weeks of prospecting we still hadn’t found any gold. searching for gold or some other valuable product

verified He said that the news of California’s gold discovery had been verified. I called Grandma and verified that she had received the package I sent. declared real, authentic, or true

Vocabulary emigrants - people who have left their own homeland to settle in a new one persecution - the mistreatment or harassment of a person or group of people abandon - to give up something; to stop working on something prospecting - searching for gold or some other valuable product verified - declared real, authentic, or true