https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc Made with joy en-us 2018-02-12 21:29:25 UTC 2018-02-12 21:46:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842216 Placer mining is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit or by various surface excavating equipment or tunnelling equipment.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842216 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842303 Meaning "extensive view of the landscape" is from 1530s; transferred sense of "mental view or survey" is from 1620s. Sense of "person or thing considered promising" is from 1922. Prospects "expectations, things looked forward to" is from 1660s.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842303 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842363 The people who left their homes in search of gold were later referred to as the "forty-niners," simply because the year was 1849. Although the exact numbers are unknown, it's believed that around 300,000 people migrated to California during the Gold Rush.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842363 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842397 The people who left their homes in search of gold were later referred to as the "forty-niners," simply because the year was 1849. Although the exact numbers are unknown, it's believed that around 300,000 people migrated to California during the Gold Rush.]]> 2018-02-12 21:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230842397 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230843916 John Augustus Sutter Sr., born Johann August Sutter, was a German-born Swiss pioneer of California known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. ]]> 2018-02-12 21:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230843916 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844110 The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time]]> 2018-02-12 21:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844110 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844289 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo.]]> 2018-02-12 21:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844289 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844581 Bear Flag Revolt. Bear Flag Revolt, (June–July 1846), short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. In 1846 approximately 500 Americans were living in California, compared with between 8,000 and 12,000 Mexicans.]]> 2018-02-12 21:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844581 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844787 Before 1848, California wasn't even part of the United States, it belonged to Mexico. And the people who lived there were the Californios. A Californio was a Spanish speaking, Catholic person of Latin American descent born in Alta California between 1769 and 1848.]]> 2018-02-12 21:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230844787 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845066 James Knox Polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives and Governor of Tennessee.]]> 2018-02-12 21:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845066 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845289 The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.]]> 2018-02-12 21:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845289 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845506 2018-02-12 21:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/3whfkrd1r0vc/wish/230845506