Irvine Park Vocabulary Quiz 2

A person who starts a new business

• entrepreneur

• prospector

• Argonauts

• overlanders

An early source of power for the gold miners

• water wheel

• steam engine

• immigrate

• mother lode

A land route that extended from Missouri to California

• Old Spanish Trail

• Transcontinental Railroad

• California Trail

• Westward Trail

to mark a portion of land to mine

• prospector

• forty-niners

• mother lode

• stake a claim

people who travel by ship to California in search of gold

• immigrate

• Argonauts

• overlanders

• gold mine

A range of mountains the overlanders crossed to get to California

• Old Spanish Trail

• Sierra Nevada

• California Trail

• Mother Lode

the railroad built to make travel easier between the east and west coasts

• Mother Lode

• California Trail

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Sierra Nevada

people who traveled by land to California

• Old Spanish Trail

• Overlanders

• Argonauts

• forty-niners

a person who is one of the first settlers of a part of a country

• immigrate

• migrate

• pioneer

• overlander

to come to another country to live

• immigrant

• overlander

• forty-niner

• prospector