Theme Gold Rush 1848-California

Vocabulary Word List for Gold Rush 1848-California (286)

• A

  abandon, advantage, alcoholism, alluvial deposit, alluvial sand, amount, anticipation, anxiety, area, argonauts, ascent, assayer, assist, attempt

• B

  bankruptcy, beckon, blaze, boat, bonanza, boom, boom town, boundary, burden, buried, bust, bustle

• C

  cabins, camp, cholera, claim, climb, cold, collecting, commodity, commotion, complications, conceal, conditions, cover, covert, cradle, creek, currency

• D

  dank, death, debris, delivery, demand, deny, deposit, descent, despair, detect, detection, determination, develop, difficult, dirt, disadvantage, discovery, discrimination, disease, dishonest, dispute, ditch, diversity, documentation, doubt, downstream, dream, dreary, drench

• E

  equipment, ethnic, eventful, evidence, excavate, excitement, exhaustion, explore, exposure

• F

  fever, fields, flock, foil, foot, formation, fortune, fortune hunter, freewheeling, frontier

• G

  gambling, glitter, gold-fever, gravel, greenhorn

• H

  hardship, hardworking, heritage, hidden, historical, honest, hope, horseback, horses, hunger, hydraulic mining

• I

  illness, immigration, impact, information, interaction, interest, issue

• J

  jinx, journey

• K

  key

• L

  labor, laborer, law, lawless, load, lode, lodging, lure

• M

  malaria, map, measure, memorabilia, mercantile, metal, miner, minerals, mining, money, monitor, mountains, movement, mud, multi-cultural

• N

  nasty, neglect, nugget, numbers

• O

  obsession, obstacle, official, opportunist, opportunity, ore, overland, ownership

• P

  pack animals, panning, path, persuade, pickax, piles, pioneers, placer mining, preservation, prices, primitive, produce, profit, prospect, prospector

• Q

  quartz

• R

  recovery, region, rental, reveal, risk, rock, rocker and cradle, rocks, rough, route, rugged, rush, rustic

• S

  sack, sacrifice, scale, scarcity, scrubber, seek, serious, settle, settlement, shack, shaft, sift, sky-high, slogan, sluice box, smelt, soldiers, stage coach, stake, stampede, standard, stealing, stream, strike, struggle, supplies, supply, sway

• T

  tailing, tale, technique, tents, terrain, territory, thousands, timber, toil, toll, tools, trail, transportation, treasure, trial, tributary, trommel, trouble, tunneling

• U

  undergo, unique, unscrupulous, unusual

• V

  value, vein, verify, vicinity

• W

  wager, wagon, water, water pressure, weary, weather, weigh, west, western, wilderness, witness, work, worthless

• X

• Y

  yield

• Z

  zeal

• A

  Affect, American West

• B

  Broke

• C

  California, Capital, Challenges, Chinese, Competition, Cutthroat

• E

  Effect, Embedded, Epic, Exploit

• F

  Forty-Niners

• I

  Investment

• J

  James Wilson Marshall

• L

  Legal, Losses, Luck

• M

  Mania, Millionaires, Mining, Miserable, Monetary

• N

  Native Americans

• P

  President Polk, Purpose

• Q

  Quality, Quantity

• S

  Spur

• T

  Thousands

• U

  Unfortunate

• W

  Wealth, Westward