The California Gold Rush by Katie Williams https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux Scavenger Hunt en-us 2016-11-08 00:51:35 UTC 2025-11-15 18:34:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Introduction katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974090 The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area. A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush. ]]> 2016-11-08 00:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974090 Start Here katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974360 1. How did the Gold Rush Begin?
2. Who discovered the gold first?
3. There was no technology at the time so how did people find out about the gold so fast?

]]> 2016-11-08 01:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974360 Lets Keep Going katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974678 4.What year did the Gold Rush start? 
5. What all types of transportation was used to  get to California?
6. How did the 49ers know if they found gold?

]]> 2016-11-08 01:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135974678 Journey part  katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135975502 7.  How did the miners get their name the 49ers?
8. Why did so many people rush to mine gold?
9. How many routes were there? Name and describe them. 
10. Besides Americans, what was the next largest group of miners? 

]]> 2016-11-08 01:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135975502 Journey part 4 katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135975962 11. What were some advantages and disadvantages that people encountered during the Gold Rush?
12. What is the main effect the Gold Rush had on California? ]]> 2016-11-08 01:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135975962 Do not click on this until you have completed all the questions. Trust me, I will know if you did.  katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135976257 1.The spark that ignited the gold rush occurred in May 1848 when Sam Brannan, a storekeeper in Sutter's Creek, brandished a bottle filled with gold dust around San Francisco shouting 'Gold! Gold! Gold from American River!'
2. James Wilson Marshall
3. New York Herald printed news of the discovery 
4. May 1848
5. Ships, wagon trains, horses, walking
6. They would bite into it and see if was heavier than sand and stone. 
7. The influx of people during the Gold Rush was in 1849. 
8. They wanted to find a fortune. 
9. At first, there were only two routes. The first entailed a six-month sea voyage from New York around the tip of South America to San Diego or San Francisco. Rampant seasickness, bug-infested food, boredom, and high expense made this route unattractive for many would-be prospectors. The second route brought travelers over the Oregon-California Trail in covered wagons—over rugged terrain and hostile territory. This journey also averaged six months' duration. By 1850, the length and difficulty of both routes had inspired the construction of the Panama Railway, the world's first transcontinental railroad. Built across the isthmus of Panama by private American companies to speed travel to California, the railroad helped to shave months off of the long voyage around South America.
10. Chinese 
11. They looked at California and liked what they saw. Instead of returning home they sent for their families. For others, however, the gold rush was a catastrophe. The peaceful indigenous people were decimated. They perished in great numbers from starvation, disease, abuse, and massacre. Their society, habitat, infrastructure and culture were utterly destroyed. Other minorities suffered severe discrimination as well.
 As miners continued to invent faster, more destructive methods of finding gold, the land was ravaged. Hillsides were washed away in torrents of water, and towns downstream were inundated by immense floods of mud. Water supplies were poisoned. Grand forests of oak and pine were leveled for mining timbers.
    The gold discovery wrought immense changes upon the land and its people. California, with its diverse population, achieved statehood in 1850.
12. The independent, adventurous spirit that is such an important part of California’s economy today is a lasting reverberation of the great gold rush of 1849.

]]> 2016-11-08 01:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135976257 Standards katie_williams09 https://padlet.com/katie_williams09/hieuit98ouux/wish/135978721 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.3 
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. 
Grade: 05 
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.2 
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
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