UNIT 3 Page #5…The GOLD RUSH - Into the West Film Guide

GOLD RUSH…PDF reading

Directions: Using the reading, make a list of crucial concepts that you would need to have shown or displayed in a film if you were writing a script for a
movie and wanted to explain the process of life in California during the Gold Rush.

1. James Marshall found gold while building a mill

2. Came right before the treaty of guadelupe
3. Everyone rushed for the new land.
4. Many people died on the way to California
5. Many ways to get there.
6. You could drive around Cape Horn
7. Could cross the Panama Canal
8. Could cross the land
9. The people that got rich were the shop keepers
10. 25000 people came in two years
11. Prices were very hiked
12. Up to 80,000 people came a year
13. Very few people got rich
14. They were mostly men
15. Originally panned for gold, than they went mining
16. It cost a lot to eat
17. They were called 49’rs
18. Not all were americans
19. There were chinees and peruvian
20. The work goes on all day

Follow along with the film and answer the questions in the space provided.
21. How long was Jacob on the Eastern side of the Sierra-Nevada Mountains? Click or tap here to enter text.
22. What made him want to leave that life he had been lost in? Click or tap here to enter text.
23. What group did he join to help him search while he was in California? Click or tap here to enter text.
24. Why did he state that he lost everything once the war was over, based on what he saw at the cabin off the road? Click or tap here to enter text.
25. What did he give Jacob Jr. and why was it important? Click or tap here to enter text.
26. What did Margaret Light Shines do with the news that her father was alive? Click or tap here to enter text.
27. Where does this part of the story take place and when?
a. Click or tap here to enter text.
b. Click or tap here to enter text.
28. What did the traveler say he was looking for? Click or tap here to enter text.
29. Where were the rumors coming from? Click or tap here to enter text.
30. When Margaret was at the merchant’s store, what was being illustrated about this time period? Click or tap here to enter text.
31. Why did Jacob choose to leave the army and why didn’t he return to his family? Click or tap here to enter text.
32. Describe some of Jethro’s experiences on his first day visiting the dig site. Click or tap here to enter text.
33. How much money did Martin Jerrett say he pulled out of the river already? Click or tap here to enter text.
34. Why does Jethro try to justify his desire to keep digging for gold? Click or tap here to enter text.
35. What was it that Jethro started to consume that changed his attitude and temperament? Click or tap here to enter text.
36. Why were things getting bad at home? Click or tap here to enter text.
37. What happened to all the game in the area? Click or tap here to enter text.
38. Who came to the west and what was he willing to offer? Click or tap here to enter text.
39. Who did the Wheeler’s run off and why did they feel that they could do that? Click or tap here to enter text.
40. What did they find and why did they need to keep it quiet? Click or tap here to enter text.
41. Where did they need to take the nugget to get assayed? Click or tap here to enter text.
42. What was the argument that Jethro had with his cousin over? Click or tap here to enter text.
43. What happened by morning? Click or tap here to enter text.
44. What was ironic about the statement that his cousin David made, “I will die a rich man, not pounding iron.”? Click or tap here to enter text.
45. Why do you think Thunderheart Woman didn’t look sad or upset? Click or tap here to enter text.
46. Why did Jacob return to his family? Click or tap here to enter text.
47. What was his family doing for a living when he returned to them? Click or tap here to enter text.
48. How did you like getting to watch the Wheeler family story during this Unit? Click or tap here to enter text.
49. Tally up ideas that you saw referenced from the reading in the film; Click or tap here to enter text. TOTAL # Click or tap here to enter text.
50. Are you ready to start working on your song project now that all 5 themes of Manifest Destiny have been learned? Click or tap here to enter
text.