Statehood for California

A huge movement of people going to a place to look for gold.

• gold rush

• claim

• forty-niner

• isthmus

Fortune seekers who traveled to California and arrived in 1849.

• isthmus

• forty-niners

• gold rush

• claim

A narrow piece of land that connects two larger land areas.

• forty-niners

• claim

• isthmus

• gold rush

The area a miner said belonged to him or her.

• gold rush

• forty-niners

• isthmus

• claim

A person who buys a good or service.

• consumer

• entrepreneur

• inflation

• gold rush

A person who sets up a new business.

• inflation

• consumer

• entrepreneur

• forty-niners

A sharp increase in prices is called __________.

• claim

• vigilante

• consumer

• inflation

The unfair treatment of people because of their religion, their race, or their birthplace.

• vigilante

• discrimination

• inflation

• consumer

A person who takes the law into his or her own hands.

• vigilante

• consumer

• forty-niners

• discrimination

A graph that shows changes over time.

• pie chart

• block graph

• line graph

• plot line