Life In the West Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. these are people who moved to California in 1852 to get gold
  2. 6. the people who joined the gold rush in California
  3. 10. a person who moves from one country to another
  4. 11. this is what chinese called California in 1848
  5. 14. person or group that explores new areas of thought or activity
  6. 15. a person who moves from one country to another
Down
  1. 1. to extract useful materials from earth
  2. 2. to cause a person or group to suffer
  3. 4. an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia river in Oregon
  4. 5. the largest Chinese community in the United States
  5. 7. member or follower of a millenarian Christian movement founded in the US by Joseph Smith in 1830
  6. 8. a discovery of gold-sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals- that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune
  7. 9. a religious settlement that includes a church, resident, farmland and workshop.
  8. 12. mason a pioneer woman who fought her way to freedom
  9. 13. the position of a person, either socially or professionally