Irvine Park Vocabulary Quiz 3

an underground hole propped up with timber

• mine shaft

• pick axes

• long tom

• drive

a long rocker with riffles on the bottom that separated gold from sand and gravel

• mine shaft

• long tom

• pick axes

• squatter

the religion of the Catholic Church

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Catholicism

• Hinduism

the practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay

• slavery

• squatter

• deep leads

• drive

a person who buys and sells goods

• merchant

• squatter

• deep leads

• slavery

a tunnel dup underground that linked to a mine shaft

• mine shaft

• drive

• squatter

• deep leads

a wood box set on rockers, used in mining for gold

• long tom

• drive

• deep leads

• gold rocker

an official document, signed by Mexico, stating that land from New Mexico to California became part of the U.S.

• The Golden State

• Claim Jumper

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Claim Jumper

a tool used for gold mining

• pick axes

• drive

• merchant

• deep leads

a person who mines on someone else's claim

• merchant

• squatter

• Claim Jumper

• Eureka!