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History :

• California: The new gold rush with PHOTOS
  (BBC)
  
  
  
  

• The Gold Rush (PBS)
  People and Events - Map - Timeline - Teacher's Guide

  

• Westward Ho! Trails and Travelers (adventuretales.com)

  

• American History - PowerPoint Presentations (pppst.com)
  Explorers - Civil War - Government -
  Native Americans - Industrial/Immigration - Geography -
  Colonial Times - Great Depression - Patriotic Symbols -
  Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Multicultural -
  Western Expansion - World Wars - Many More

• Gold Rush : Gold Rush History (malakoff.com) :
  Part 1: Gold! An Era Remembered
  Part 2: At Work & Play
  Part 3: Chasing a Dream
  Part 4: A Lasting Impact
  Extra! Extra!
  Travel: Visiting History
  Resources: Learning More
  
  
  
  

• Western Pioneers, Frontiermen, Mountainmen and Fur Traders (americanwest.com)
  Buffalo Bill
  James Bowie ("the Bowie knife inventor")
  Davy Crockett
  Daniel Boone
  Kit Carson
  Wyatt Earp

• Women of the West And Every Day Life Along the Trail (over-land.com)
  ex : Calamity Jane
  
• A Unit Study of the Gold Rush Era (easyfunschool)

• A Unit Study on the Oregon Trail (easyfunschool)

• Oregon Trail Field Trip (field-trips)

• Route 40 (route40.net) - LIEN MODIFIE
  

• California - Gold Fever (History on the Net)
  "An illustrated sheet about the pros and cons of the California Gold rush with related activities."
  

• The Interactive Santa Fe Trail (SFT) Homepage (kansasheritage.org)
  History of the Santa Fe Trail - Exploring the Trail Today: road trips, bikes, horses, hikes, maps - pictures, eCards - Stops and sights along the trail - Kansas Sights: History / People / Travel - SF Trail Who's Who - Rivers & the Trail (raven.cc.ku.edu)
  
  

• THE AMERICAN WEST (vlib.us)
  History - Geography - People - Transportation - Maps
  
  

• Lawlessness in the West (History on the Net)
  "Worksheet explaining factors that contributed to lawlessness in the West."

• Trails to the West - a map (eduplace)

• Historical maps (US) - (eduplace)

• Old West - LINKS (dsu.edu)
  "The Old West of this page is defined loosely as the legend and reality of 19th Century America west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and anything and anybody associated with it, past and present.
  After all, the Old West is not really a time or a place but a state of mind. Jim Janke."
  

Worksheets :

• The California Gold Rush - Oral Comprehension Test
  "Here is a video document from the History Channel and a worksheet to assess students' oral comprehension about it."
  - with the script of the video.
  (Philippe Hattais - Ac. Créteil)

  

• American West - Worksheets (History on the Net)
  
  
  
  
• California - Gold Fever (History on the Net)
  "An illustrated sheet about the pros and cons of the California Gold rush with related activities."
  

• Images of the Western Cowboy (History on the Net)
  "Describe how each of the images ... relate to the Western Cowboy."

• The Life of a Cowboy (History on the Net)
  "Match the pictures on the left to the statements on the right."
  

Games TO PRINT :

• California Gold Rush - word search (anglaisfacile)
  
  

• Lawlessness Word Search (History on the Net)
  "There are eight crimes commonly committed in the West hidden in this wordsearch."

• American West Crossword (History on the Net)
  "A giant crossword with clues relating to the American West - Indians, gold rush, Mormons, railroad and cowboys."
  
  

Webquests :

• Famous People of the Gold Rush : Lotta Crabtree, Mark Twain, and Levi Strauss (projects.edtech.sandi.net)
  - a webquest

• Chasing a Dream - The California Gold Rush (webinquiry.org) - LIEN MODIFIE
  "In 1849 many people came to California to “strike it rich”.
  Who were they? Where did they come from? What did they find?..."