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.