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The Gold Rush

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  • What object did prospectors use to find gold in the river?
    A pan
  • Which was the longest route to go to the Gold Country?
    South America
  • What were the 3 possible routes to go to California from the East?
    By land, via Panama, via, South America
  • What was curious about the population in San Francisco after gold was discovered?
    That only 300 out of 25,000 residents were women
  • What do you call the group of prospectors that went to California to find gold?
    Forty-niners
  • Where in California was gold discovered?
    Sutter's Mill
  • How many people lived in San Francisco 2 years after gold was discovered?
    25,000
  • Who discovered the first piece of gold?
    James Marshall
  • Who invented the first jeans?
    Levi Strauss
  • What year was gold discovered in California?
    1848
  • What's another name for a miner?
    prospector
  • What do you call a small piece of gold?
    gold nugget
  • Where does the word "denim" come from?
    De Nîmes (From Nîmes, the city in France)
  • How many miners went to California during the Gold Rush?
    About 300,000
  • What do you call the material with which jeans are made?
    Denim
  • Where was Levi Strauss from?
    Germany
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