The Elusive Eden Chapter Eleven
The New Eldorado

1. Who was Sam Brannan?
2. Who was James Marshal?
3. What happened on January 24, 1848?
4. How did John Sutter profit from the discovery of Gold?
5. What was La Bonanza?
6. What happened to half of Sam Brannan’s fortune?
7. What were Argonauts and who was Jason?
8. What was the “Mother Lode”?
9. How did the world hear about the discovery of gold?
10. How do you find gold with salve?
11. How did people generally get to California? How many people came to California during the gold rush? Where did they come from?
12. What was placer gold?
13. What was a “rocker” or a “cradle?”
14. What was hydraulic mining?
15. What was lode mining? What was quick silver use for?
16. How much wealth was claimed in California during the Gold Rush?
17. What were miner wages during the Gold Rush?
18. What were conditions in the goldfields like for the Californios?
19. What was the Foreign Miners’ Tax Law?
20. What happened when California Indians worked in the mines?
21. What was the Modoc War?