California Gold Rush PowerPoint and Note Set

This PowerPoint and notes set gives students and teachers everything they need to know about the California Gold Rush, including supplies, boomtowns, forty-niners, and how California became a state.

Includes:

- 8 slide PowerPoint

- 3 pages of notes

- answer key

This internet scavenger hunt covers Georgia Performance Standards:

SS4H6 The student will explain westward expansion of America between 1801 and 1861.

a. Describe territorial expansion with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Texas (the Alamo and independence), Oregon (Oregon Trail), and California (Gold Rush and the development of mining towns).

I hope you and your students enjoy this PowerPoint and Note Set!

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