Website Spotlight: Gold Rush

Website URL: http://museumca.org/goldrush/fever.html


These are the specific sections I ask my students to work through:

Part 1
http://museumca.org/goldrush/fever01.html

a. Lure of Gold

b. California [especially the two subsections entitled "Californio" and "California Indian"]

c. Discovery

d. First Finds

e. The News

f. Across Land

g. By Sea


Part 2
http://museumca.org/goldrush/fever-part2.html

a. Elephant

b. Miner's Life

c. Prospecting [work through all five of the subsections]:

Chinese Camp
Arrastra
Miwok Mining Site |
Coyote Hole
Long Tom

d. Commerce [check out the Levi Strauss example]

e. Entertainment

For reviews of this website:

1. Gold Rush!
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4915/

2. Gold Rush!
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/23069


On my Learning Professor wiki, this website fits within the following U.S. History survey course module:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Expansion