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