where many people set up camp and lived in one spot - Settlement, a town where the population grows quickly, or booms - Boomtown, a great migration of people to the west in search of gold - Gold rush, people who headed west to search for gold - Prospectors, people who dig into the earth to look for gold - Miners, areas of land set aside for the First Nations to live - Reservations, abandoned towns - Ghost towns, a supply of equipment, food, or money that was loaned to the prospector in return for some of the profits of his gold - Grubstake, looked like gold but was not valuable - Iron pyrite, for a miner - dirt that had the glitter of gold in it - Pay dirt, a shallow and wide metal dish used for panning gold - Gold pan, a wooden rectangular box on rockers used by gold miners - Rocker box, water is flushed down a long box to wash the gravel which is shoveled into it - Sluice box, a wooden peg driven into the ground to mark the boundaries of a claim - Stake, wooden cross-pieces in a rocker box or sluice that trapped gold - Riffles, men who tried to uphold the law by punishing crimes themselves without the help of the police or the courts - Vigilantes,

Gold Rush Match Up

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