California Gold Rush: Bust or Boom
How did the California Gold Rush impact native culture, the environment and urban development?
Social Studies

HSS.4.3.2. Compare how and why people traveled to California and the routes they traveled (e.g., James Beckwourth, John Bidwell, John C. Fremont, Pio Pico).
HSS.4.3.3. Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment (e.g., using biographies of John Sutter, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Louise Clapp).
HSS.4.3.4. Study the lives of women who helped build early California (e.g., Biddy Mason).