THE CALIFORNIA

GOLD RUSH
 New words

■ Gold rush - a situation in which a lot of people move to

a place to try to find gold because they have heard that gold has
been found there
■ Carpenter - someone whose job is making and repairing wooden objects
■ Flake – a small thin piece that breaks away easily from something else
■ Explode –
■ increase greatly in number, amount, or degree
■ to burst, or to make something burst, into small pieces, usually with a 
loud noise and in a way that causes damage
Gold Rush
A Rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield.
The first major gold rush, to California in 1848, was followed by
others in the US, Australia (1851–3), South Africa (1884), and
Canada (Klondike, 1897–8).