Word List Gold Rush-California 286 words

Gold Rush-California Vocabulary Word List (286)

• A

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

• B

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

• C

  cabins, California, camp, Capital, Challenges, Chinese, cholera, claim, climb, cold, collecting, commodity, commotion, Competition, complications, conceal, conditions, cover, covert, cradle, creek, currency, Cutthroat

• 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

  Effect, Embedded, Epic, equipment, ethnic, eventful, evidence, excavate, excitement, exhaustion, Exploit, explore, exposure

• F

  fever, fields, flock, foil, foot, formation, fortune, fortune hunter, Forty-Niners, 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, Investment, issue

• J

  James Wilson Marshall, jinx, journey

• K

  key

• L

  labor, laborer, law, lawless, Legal, load, lode, lodging, Losses, Luck, lure

• M

  malaria, Mania, map, measure, memorabilia, mercantile, metal, Millionaires, miner, minerals, mining, Mining, Miserable, Monetary, money, monitor, mountains, movement, mud, multi-cultural

• N

  nasty, Native Americans, neglect, nugget, numbers

• O

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

• P

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

• Q

  Quality, Quantity, 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, Spur, stage coach, stake, stampede, standard, stealing, stream, strike, struggle, supplies, supply, sway

• T

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

• U

  undergo, Unfortunate, unique, unscrupulous, unusual

• V

  value, vein, verify, vicinity

• W

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

• X

• Y

  yield

• Z

  zeal