The Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush brought thousands of people to that territory after 1849. Watch the video to learn about it.



Then you can go to https://ed.ted.com/on/8bCxkZdn and do some exercises about it.

You can also see how people filter sand to get the gold with a mining pan here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rLyWrYHJ1E

Finally, there's a very famous Charlie Chaplin film about another Gold Rush (in Yukon, Canada). Here's a famous scene from the film: