Fourth grade social studies resources

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CALIFORNIA HISTORY

Brief History of the CA Gold Rush
http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/geology/goldrush.html

Brain Pop Video: http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/goldrush/

Kid's Life on the Oregon Trail: 
http://www.blm.gov/or/oregontrail/education-kids-trail.php

Gold Rush Entrepreneurs:
Sam Brannan - General Store
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_brannan.html

General William T. Sherman - Banking
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sherman.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman

John Plankinton & Philip Danforth Armour - Food Services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Danforth_Armour
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_armour.html
http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/meat_hof/1995/plankinton.htm

Levi Strauss - Denim Jeans
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventors/a/Levi_Strauss.htm


Women of the Gold Rush
http://www.irwinator.com/126/wdoc79.htm
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/
Mary Jane Megquier - ran a boarding house and wrote famous letters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Megquier
http://imet.csus.edu/imet3/odell/gold_rush/characters/mjmegquier.html
http://www.michaellamarr.com/womenofgr.html
Louisa Clappe - Dame Shirley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Amelia_Knapp_Smith_Clappe

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6516/

http://pvhn2.wordpress.com/1800-2/louise-amelia-smith-clappe-aka-dame-shirley/

http://www.whoislog.info/profile/louise-amelia-knapp-smith-clappe.html

http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit05/authors-3.html


Technology 
The Evolution of Gold Mining: http://www.calgoldrush.com/graphics/evolution.html 
Panning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_panning
Rocker/Cradle: http://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jsnhb/v2n1/miningtechniques.html
Sluicebox: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Sluice-for-Gold
Long Tom: http://www.ritchiewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Long_Tom
Hydraulic Mining: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_mining, http://museumca.org/goldrush/fever19-hy.html

Transportation
Leland Standford - The Big Four The Pacific Railroad
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Leland_Stanford.aspx
Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/westwardexpansion/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad
Pony Express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/ponyexpress/ponyexpress.htm
Stagecoach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecoach
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/562465/stagecoach
Covered Wagon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_wagon
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/473853/prairie-schooner
http://www.oregonpioneers.com/wagon.htm
Clipper Ships
http://library.thinkquest.org/6169/hist.htm
http://history1800s.about.com/od/1800sglossary/g/clipperdef.htm
Steam Boats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat
http://mygoldrushtales.com/steamship-service-to-gold-rush-california-begins/


Chinese Immigrants
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03asians.html
Working Conditions
http://apa.si.edu/ongoldmountain/gallery2/gallery2.html
Medicine
http://cim.ucdavis.edu/clubs/CAMSIG/Story.html
http://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jsnhb/v5n1/cheung.html
Reasons for Leaving
http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist6/chinhate.html
Ethical Issues
http://americanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa090901a.htm
immigrants.harpweek.com/ChineseAmericans/1Introduction/BillWeiIntro.htm

Additional Links:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbrush.html
http://lessons.ctaponline.org/~dbaker/dbaker/A%20folder/goldrushlife.html
ww.coloma.com/california-gold-discovery/history/coloma-chinese/