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Chapter Assessment Technology Activity

Want to show what you know? Use the Internet and the preselected Web sites provided below to complete the end-of-chapter Internet activity.

Life in Mining Camps

Making a Class Presentation

Life in the mining camps was not like life "back east." Information about the camps comes from primary sources, like diaries and newspaper articles. Using the Internet and library, find sources about life in the mining camps.

Your sources might include:

  • images of mines, miners, or miner's shacks
  • images of items that the general store sold to miners
  • tales of the gold fields
  • information about the diversity of cultures in the camps

The Foremothers Tell of Olden Times http://www.sfmuseum.org/ hist5/ foremoms.html
California women's first-person accounts of early pioneering and the Gold Rush days.

Letters and Photographs from the California Gold Rush Era http://www.glittering.com/ letters/ index.html
Excerpts of letters written by California gold rush miners and residents of the Mother Lode region in the 1800s and historical photographs.

African-American 49er http://www.sfmuseum.org/ bio/ coffey.html
The story of Alvin Coffey, an African-American miner during the gold rush.