Montana History Chapter 6 Vocabulary

People who search for Gold

• Tax Collector

• Soldier

• Prospectors

• Clerks

No longer yielded gold

• Ran Out

• Played Out

• Out of Hope

• Strike Out

Rich Mineral Deposit

• Bonanza

• Extravaganza

• Strike

• Discovery

Thick Bushes

• Sage

• Sweet Grass

• Alder

A Lot

• Scab

• Flume

• Stike

• Scad

Separating loose gold and nuggets from dirt, sand, and gravel in a creek bed

• Placer Mining

• Hydraulic Mining

• Gold Panning

• Open Pit Mining

Assayer's

• Determined where roads should be built

• Assistant to the town mayor

• Determined the value or quality of gold

Prejudice

• a pre-formed negative opinion

• a pre-formed positive opinion

• a pre-formed neutral opinion

Barring

• Granting

• Approving

• Selecting

• Forbidding

Disputes

• Decree

• Arguments

• Agreements

• Decision