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Gold Rush Vocabulary
What Was the Gold Rush? Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bedrock | solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil |
| boomtown | a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity |
| claim jumping | seizing another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights |
| hardship | something that causes or entails suffering |
| merchant | a buyer and seller of goods for profit |
| migrate | to move from one country or region to another |
| mineral | a substance (such as quartz, coal, petroleum, salt, etc.) that is naturally formed under the ground |
| pay dirt | earth or ore that yields a profit to a miner |
| population | the whole number of people or inhabitants in a county or region |
| prospector | a type of explorer, but one with a specific purpose of finding mineral deposits |