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Quarter 3. Week 22
Forty-niners Vocabulary
Throughout this week, you learned how miners went about staking a claim during
the Gold Rush and the different routes the forty-niners took to get there. Write
the word that corresponds to the description given.
Cape Horn
scurvy
cholera
Bidwell
elephant Isthmus of Panama
hydraulic mining
gold rush
2
This costly method damaged the environment
and scarred the land forever.
2.
When heading to California, many forty-niners
said they were going to see this.
3.
This disease was caused by not getting
enough vitamin C and caused bleeding gums and open sores.
This is the southern tip of South
America
5.
This is a narrow stretch of land with water on
both sides.
4.
6.
This occurred when gold was discovered in an
area, and people gathered to the site hoping to get rich.
7.
_This is a disease of the small intestine caused
by drinking dirty water.
8.
This person arrived at Marsh Ranch, near
Mount Diablo, on November 4, 1841.
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HSS Standards Covered: 4.3.3
Cognitive Complexity Level: MODERATE/2-3

The words to complete these sentences are hydraulic mining, elephants, scurvy, Cape Horn, Isthmus of Panama, gold rush, cholera, and Bidwell.

What does this task require?

This task requires you to match the words to their definitions.

What do these words mean?

Hydraulic mining: Method used to extract minerals that can damage the soil (sentence 1).
Elephants: This animal represented how adventorous the gold rush was (sentence 2).
Scurvy: Disease caused by the lack of vitamin C or problems in its absorption (sentence 3).
Cape Horn: Region located in the South of America were the continent ends (sentence 4)
Istshmus of Panama: Narrow region surrounded by water (sentence 5).
Gold rush: Massive movement of people who want to find gold to get rich (sentence 6).
Cholera: Disease caused by bacteria which is the result of drinking contaminated water or eating contaminatid food (sentence 7).
Bidwell: Amecian pioneer (sentence 8).

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