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| 1. When was gold discovered in California? | show 🗑
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| 2. Who first discovered gold in California? | show 🗑
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| show | Sutter’s Mill, American River
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| 4. Why did Sam Brannan announce that gold had been found in the American River? | show 🗑
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| 5. Where were many of the first miners from? | show 🗑
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| show | About 80,000
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| 7. What were the ways that people learned about the discovery of gold? | show 🗑
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| 8. What were the three routes that forty-niners took to California? | show 🗑
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| 9. What route was the most popular? Why? | show 🗑
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| show | Panama route because it combined the sea and land
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| show | See the “routes” booklet
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| show | About 300,000
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| show | China, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia
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| 14. How did miners use pans to separate gold from mud and gravel? | show 🗑
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| show | These technologies let the miners separate more gold from rock and dirt faster
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| 16. What happened to the availability of gold after several years? | show 🗑
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| 17. What technologies did the miners begin using after gold in streams and rivers was gone? | show 🗑
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| show | Few places to buy food, crude shelters and tents, fires in crowded mining camps, discrimination
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| show | California Indians were paid less than other less skilled miners, attacks forced Chinese and African-American miners into separate camps, in many camps people worked and lived peacefully
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| 20. What happened to the population of California between 1848 and 1852? | show 🗑
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| show | Many people arrived and bought goods and services
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| 22. What were some of the types of businesses that sold things to miners? | show 🗑
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| 23. Why were prices high in the mining towns? | show 🗑
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| show | When most to the surface gold was gone, businesses got land, bought equipment, and hired workers to find the gold. Soon only big businesses could afford to stay in business.
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| 25. What are three ways entrepreneurs earned money during the Gold Rush? | show 🗑
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| 26. What kind of businesses did Ghirardelli, Strauss, Wakefield, and Wilson start? | show 🗑
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