Vocabulary List:

Gold Rush Words

February 5, 2010
first-come-first-serve
gold rush
forty-niner
niner
Rush
placer mining
abandoned ship
tailrace
prefabricate
goldfields
gold-bearing
California
gold
goldfield
James Polk
eighter
groundbreaking ceremony
sea floor
arriver
prospector
placer
dot-com
mining
Isthmus of Panama
Mexican-American
movie maker
miner
western United States
preemption
seeker
magma
Genova
vigilantism
licensing fee
Trinity River
argonaut
hydraulic
ghost town
ethnicity
separate out
East Coast
steamship
steamship company
San Francisco
river bottom
gravel
February 2
Sonora
paper currency
Sacramento River