The California Gold Rush

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The California Gold Rush

• A Changing America
• Unit 6, Lesson 6
• http//www.opencourtresources.com

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Vocabulary

• emigrants
• persecution
• abandon
• prospecting
• verified

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emigrants

• Meanwhile, overland emigrants from the United
  States began to arrive in the valley.
• The emigrants wrote to relatives they left in
  their homeland.
• people who have left their own homeland to
  settle in a new one

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persecution

• They had sailed around Cape Horn hoping to
  escape from the religious persecution they had
  experienced in the East.
• The Pilgrims left England to escape
  persecution.
• the mistreatment or harassment of a
• person or group of people

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abandon

• They discovered enough to abandon their
  regular work and begin mining in earnest.
• Settlers would often abandon their houses when
  they moved westward.
• to give up something to stop working on
  something

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prospecting

• Those who already had been prospecting
  displayed their pouches of gold dust as they
  prepared to dig for more.
• After two weeks of prospecting we
  still hadnt found any gold.
• searching for gold or some other valuable
  product

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verified

• He said that the news of Californias gold
  discovery had been verified.
• I called Grandma and verified that she had
  received the package I sent.
• declared real, authentic, or true

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Vocabulary

• emigrants - people who have left their own
  homeland to settle in a new one
• persecution - the mistreatment or harassment of
  a person or group of people
• abandon - to give up something to stop
  working on something
• prospecting - searching for gold or some other
  valuable product
• verified - declared real, authentic, or true

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Spelling Review er

• chillier
• drowsier
• gloomier
• prettier
• noisier
• curlier
• filthier

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Spelling Review est

• dirtiest
• dizziest
• heaviest
• windiest
• liveliest
• speediest
• sweatiest

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Spelling Review ing

• climbing
• dancing
• exploring
• fishing
• golfing
• emptying