California Gold Rush

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Across
  1. 2. a term used in the presentation for when something increases incredibly fast
  2. 5. the last name of the first man to find gold in California
  3. 10. BONUS: the state nickname for California, like "the Sunshine State" for Florida
  4. 11. a territory in the West, known as the site of the Gold Rush
  5. 12. a colloquial term for clothing made popular by Levi Strauss and the 49rs
  6. 13. where (region) most people in the US lived in 1848
Down
  1. 1. a verb/term that means "to search for gold or other minerals"
  2. 3. a popular land-based path used by American migrants to travel to the West (including California)
  3. 4. one popular method for searching for gold, that uses a flat metal bowl
  4. 6. land/region in the US that had little to no people living in it in the 1800s (before the Gold Rush). It technically belonged to the Federal government
  5. 7. the nickname for the miners of the Gold Rush
  6. 8. a mineral people searched for in California (in 1848-1855)
  7. 9. a period in US history where people obsessively searched for gold in the West