The Gold Rush

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The Gold Rush

• By
• Shannon Solorzano

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Who has the Gold Fever?

• Gold fever- the dream of finding gold and getting
  rich
• Sam Brannan shouted,GOLD!GOLD!1 Gold from the
  American River
• People traveled from San Francisco, Monterey, and
  San Jose

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The 49ers(not just a football team)

• 100,000
  people were
• first
  to arrive in 1849
• The 49ers football team
• got their name because people
• traveled from
• San Francisco to
• the Gold Rush in 1849

http//pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/goldfever.html
http//www.sf49ers.com/team/roster.asp
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California.. knows how to travel

• Cape- a point of land that reaches out into the
  ocean
• Clipper ships- the fastest ships of the time
• Isthmus- a narrow piece of land that connects two
  larger land areas
• Swamp- a low, wet area, usually covered by
  shallow water

http//pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey_oregon
.html
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High Ho, High Ho off to the Mining Camps we go

• The miners used to sing Oh, Susanna to pass
  time
• They set up camp and worked in their claim (the
  area a miner said belonged to him or her)
• Life was hard in the mining camps- barely any
  food and little medicine

http//pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/goldfever.html
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Picks and Stones may break my bones, but mines
will never hurt me

• Shovels
• Pickaxes
• Cradle- it was rocked back and forth like a
  babys cradle
• Hydraulic- mining to reach the gold that was
  deeper in the ground

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Its A Small World After All

• Small cities into big cities
• Industry- all the businesses that make one kind
  of product or provide one kind of service
• Entrepreneur- a person who sets up a new business
• Free enterprise- a kind of economy in which
  people can own and run their own businesses

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Fun Facts

• In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis made the
  first denim pants with metal rivets (corners of
  the pockets to make them stronger)
• Miners often called their camps funny namesBed
  Bug, Skunk Gulch, Rough and Ready, and Rich Dry
  Diggings

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Comprehension Questions

• What are the three places that people traveled
  from to go to the Gold Rush?
• How did the Forty-Niners receive their name?
• Name one of the ways that the people traveled to
  the Gold Rush
• Was the mining camps easy or hard?
• Name one of the tools that the miners used to
  look for gold
• What is an entrepreneur?

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Thinking Questions?

• Impact on the environment
• Compare and Contrast- Recent historical event vs.
  Gold Rush
• Affect on Californias population

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Work Cited

• The Forty-Niners
• http//www.pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey.ht
  ml
• Information about the Forty-Niners
• The Journey of the Forty-Niners
• http//pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey_oregon
  .html
• Map of the journey to the Gold Rush
• San Francisco 49ers
• http//sf49ers.com
• Symbol of the 49ers football team
• Harcourt Brace Social Studies
• http//www.hbschool.com
• Information about the Gold Rush