2. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Gold Rush Good old California People of California What’s the word?

3. In what town was gold first discovered?

4. Coloma

5. Term for the people who came to California in late 1840’s to search for gold.

6. Forty-niners

7. What did miners put around the land that they “claimed” as theirs?

8. Wooden stakes or posts

9. What tool did miners use to pan for gold that required two people to work it?

10. cradle

11. The “sickness” that the miners got when they spent all of their time searching for gold.

12. Gold Fever

13. What is another name for the denim pants that miners wore?

14. jeans

15. In what year did California become a state?

16. 1850

17. What was the quickest route to California?

18. Across the isthmus of Panama

19. A convention was held to write a constitution for California. Where was this convention held?

20. Monterey

21. What was the name of the first California newspaper?

22. Mirror of the Times

23. Former slave owner who helped start a school for African-American children.

24. Biddy Mason

25. Entrepreneur who made denim pants for miners.

26. Levi Strauss

27. First governor of California

28. Peter H. Burnett

29. Military governor of California who called for the Monterey Convention.

30. Bennet Riley

31. Owner of a shoe store who helped start the 1 st African- American newspaper in California.

32. Mifflin Gibbs

33. Person who buys a good or service. a. consumer b. entrepreneur c. vigilante

34. a. consumer

35. Sharp increase in prices. a.Discrimination b. Inflation c. convention

36. b. inflation

37. Person chosen to speak and act for the people who elected him or her. a.Vigilante b. Delegate c. entrepreneur

38. b. delegate

39. Plan of government a.Legislature b. Compromise c. constitution

41. To approve a.Ratify b. Resolve c. claim

42. a. ratify

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