The California Gold Rush Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• boom town : a town that grew fast as a result of mining.
• placer : deposit of sand mixed with gold near the surface.
• prospector : someone who explores an area for mineral deposits.
• maidu : the name of the indian people who lived in northern part of the gold country.
• sacramento valley : after news broke out about the gold findings residents traveled to this valley to pan for gold.
• james marshall : was one of the first to discover gold in the california sierra nevadas.
• the chinese : were the largest group of prospectors to come from over seas.
• flake : a small piece of placer gold
• claim : a piece of ground of a certain size which no one has the right to mine except the person who owns the ground.
• gold rush : a movement of many people to a region in which gold has been discovered.
• ghost town : a town where few, if any, people live after the gold had been panned out of the area.
• argonaut : a person in search of gold
• fourty niners : one of the people who migrated to california in search of riches after gold was discovered there in 1848.
• goldfield : a district where gold is mined
• gold fever : overland migration skyrocketed from 400 in 1848 to 44,000 in 1850.