Unit 6B Vocabulary Homework

What is one effect of the gold rush on California?

• less people

• less communication technology

• new settlers from the east

• new settlers from Mexico

An area that gets a large increase of money or people.

• Boom Land

• Boom Town

• Boom City

• Boom Area

Something someone has a legal right to.

• Investor

• Law

• Land

• Claim

A place where people once lived, but is now abandoned.

• Haunted House

• Ghost Land

• Ghost Town

• Ghost Area

Someone who buys something, hoping it will make money.

• Economy

• Investor

• Business

• Bitcoin

Things people need that are in short supply, or will run out in the future.

• limited resources

• renewable resources

• mining

• discoveries

Digging for gold, silver, or other precious materials

• Minecraft

• A fun playground activity

• Mining

• speculate

Growth and progress.

• Improvement

• Discovery

• getting taller

• Development

Something new someone finds.

• Treasure

• Discovery

• Population

• Prize

A country's system of business.

• Economy

• Investment

• Gold Rush

• Speculate