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Friday, July 1, 2016

Unit 3, Lesson 3: How did the discovery of gold affect California?

Unit 3, Lesson 3 How did the discovery of gold affect California? page 75

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1. James Marshall built a new sawmill for John Sutter.
2. The sawmill was located in Coloma, California.
3. The sawmill was next to the American River.
4. The purpose of the sawmill was to provide lumber for Sutter's Fort.
5. Sam Brannan sold gold-mining tools.
6. The California Gold Rush of 1849 was many newcomers coming to the state of California searching for gold.
7. The name of the new settlers was "Forty-Niners."
8. The names of the boomtowns that were created by the Gold Rush of 1849 were San Francisco, Stockton, and Sacramento.
9. Louise Clapp used the name "Dame Shirley" to describe life in the mining towns and camps.
10. True, life as a miner was hard.
11. Land claims was the name of the document that gave miners the right to mine an area of land.
12. Pyrite is the name of fool's gold.
13. Most of the gold in California was in the Mother Lode.
14. A lode is a supply or deposit.
15. The Mother Lode was located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
16. Levi Strauss was the name of the entrepreneur that made jeans.
17. John Sutter was the name of the entrepreneur that didn't make money off the Gold Rush.
18. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo governed the area of California in 1840s.
19. Luzena Stanley Wilson owned the El Dorado Hotel in Nevada City, Nevada.

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