Across
- 6. a person who settles on land they do not own
- 7. a person who claimed land in search of gold
- 9. the people who traveled by land to California
- 11. an entrepreneur who invented durable denim pants for miners
- 13. California's principal gold quartz belt in the Sierra Nevada's
- 15. a trail that connected the missions in California
- 16. a person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country
- 18. land given by the government
- 19. a person who starts a new business
- 20. people who traveled to California in 1849 hoping to strike it rich
Down
- 1. a pioneer who was in the first wagon train of settlers to come to California from Missouri
- 2. John Sutter's employee who was the first to find gold on the American river in January of 1848
- 3. the system of producing and consuming goods
- 4. California's motto, used when miners found gold
- 5. a town that grows rapidly as a result of new business
- 8. a person that mines on someone else's claim which was against the rules of gold mining
- 10. people who traveled by ship to California in search of gold
- 12. when a gold miner marked a portion of land that they would mine
- 14. a wooden box set on rockers used in mining
- 17. a pioneer who owned a fort near the American River