California Gold Rush Escape Roo

Do you have what it takes to be a successful Forty-Niner?

An Escape Room Based on The California Gold Rush

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INDEX

Mission 3: The News, Across the Land, By Sea

Mission 2 1: CA, Discovery, First Finds

Mission 1: Introduction

Mission 5 Part 2: Law and Order, Los Angeles

Reward/ Conclusion

Mission 4: Timeline

Mission 5 PArt 1: San Francisco

MISSION 1

Reading Comprehension

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Introduction

Read through the information on the "GOLD FEVER: Introduction" Webpage linked here: Then answer the following question before moving on to the next Mission:

CLICK TO go back to the index and select your next mission

MISSION 2

Quiz

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MISSION 2 Instructions

Read and listen to the stories and facts on the links titled "California", "Discovery", and "First Finds", then, when you are ready, take your quiz!

"California"

"Discovery"

"First Finds"

QUIz

QUESTION 1

Which of the following groups immigrated to California BEFORE the Gold Rush?

49-ers football fans

Spanish Missionaries

Influencers

QUESTION 2

Along what 2 rivers was gold discovered and later panned by thousands of miners?

American and Sacramento

Snake and Boise

Mississippi and hudsen

QUESTION 3

What was John Marshall hired to do by John Sutter?

Build a national park

Build a Sawmill

Build a theme park

QUESTION 4

What mountain range had the gold come from?

The Appalachian Mountains

The Sierra Nevada Mountains

The Rocky Mountains

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MISSION 3

The Rush to Get Rich

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Mission 3 instructions:

Click the icons below to open links to articles and the California Gold Rush and the types of people who came out west on a gamble for gold. When you are finished, you will pick the correct Answer on the next few slides. Pick at least 2 articles and one video to watch!!!Click the "Next" button when you have explored all the links. See Miss Killian if you need headphones to watch the videos.

PBS Article: The California Gold Rush

Articles: Click the side panels labeled "The News", "Across the Land", and "By Sea"

Video: "California Gold Rush and Westward Movement"

Video: America, the Story of Us: Gold Rush

Video: "How the California Gold Rush Changed America"

Article: "A Day in the Life of a Prospector"

Click to Check your Knowledge

mission 3

True

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True or False:

News of the California Gold Rush spread SLOWLY

False

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True

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True or False:

Mining was easy work.

False

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True or False:

The Chinese immigrants who came here to pan for gold often brought new and better technologies and techniques with them.

False

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True

True or False:

Between April of 1849 and January of 1850, nearly 40,000 people came to San Francisco by sea.

False

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MISSION 4

Timeline of the Gold Rush

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select the incorrect date and image. Use This Link or this link if you need help

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1846

1821

LDS Pioneers begin to trek to salt Lake/Utah Territory

Spanish rule in mexico ends

C. 1845-47

The Great Idaho Potato famine happens

Click the image with the incorrect description

1848 - Winter

Henry Bigler finds gold downstream from Sutter’s mill site.

1848

Spring 1849

Treaty of Paris ends Mexican War, surrenders California and Southwest to United States. Mexican citizens who stay are promised full citizenship and property rights by the treaty.

First wave of sea-borne rush migrants begin arriving in San Francisco

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September 1849

Californians meet in Monterey, California to draft a state constitution, to set up a provisional state government, in the absence of congressional action to organize California as a territory. Ratified by local vote in November. Provisional state government set up to act, ten months before authorized by the US Congress.

September 1850

California becomes the 31st state. Compromise of 1850 allows California to enter the union as a “free state,” due to “popular sovereignty.”

1850

Indian protection act passed by provisional state government, which Forbids California settlers to enslave California native peoples.

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MISSION 5 parts 1 and 2

San francisco, LA, and law Enforcement Museum

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mission 5

Pick 1/3 "Exhibits" and Follow the link to learn more about the "Exhibit"

San Francisco

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Next Exhibit

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Los Angeles

Next Exhibit

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Law and order

3/3

Next

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The Year of the Gold Rush

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