Westward Expansion
By: Dylan Truong; a fifth grader
Gold Miners
People went crazy over gold. Anyway, the people who went to the Gold Rush were called 49ers because most of them came to California in 1849 even though the Gold Rush started on 1848. The Gold Rush started when James Marshall found gold in California when he was building Sutter's Mill. Normally, gold is found deep underground so it was weird that he found gold above ground. This started the Gold Rush.
Gold Dust
Gold Nugget
Gold Pan
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-fever/top-places-to-pan-for-gold/
Westward Expansion (con't) or continue
Transcontinental Railroad
Locomotive
Pony Express
Sources
http://www.csun.edu/~asr15199/westwardexpansion/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad
http://ponyexpress.org/history/
http://www.history.com/topics/donner-party
http://www.bisd.net/cms/lib02/TX01001322/Centricity/Domain/209/WESTWARD%20EXPANSION.pptx