Packed with hands-on inquiry-based activities, extensions and enhancements, cross-curricular independent and group work, and engaging and interactive challenges, this 52-page project-based unit comes complete with: They'll learn all about and document the California Gold Rush using primary sources, explore the dangers and hardships of a journey West, discover and map the famous "boomtowns" created by rapid expansion and the search for gold, and then create and present an annotated "storytelling" map of a personal journey West to California to join the Gold Rush. Your students will learn all about westward expansion in the United States while applying mapping, research, and descriptive writing skills in this complete project-based learning unit on the California Gold Rush for grades 4-6 social studies. Learn about the push for westward expansion, use primary sources to document the California Gold Rush, plan and map a route West that mitigates the dangers and hardships, explore the "boom and bust" cycles that produced boomtowns, and synthesize that knowledge by designing and presenting an annotated "storytelling" map about the hopes and dreams of a journey West during the Gold Rush. Streeter sale 2663.A Comprehensive Lesson on Westward Expansion, Mapping, and the California Gold Rush It shows the state before Klamath County in the north, and Nevada and Placer counties in the center, had been set apart and thus gives an earlier representation than the Butler map published the same year which shows those new counties.An important feature of Gibbes' map is that it is one of the first, if not the first, map of California to show county boundaries" (Streeter). "This map.because of its large scale and clear markings in colors of the different counties, is one of the most satisfactory of the early California maps. Jackson's 1851 map also shows county boundaries." Putting the best face on the situation, he wrote: `Towns have sprung up at all the principal mining centres, and trading establishments in them furnish all needed supplies of provisions, clothing, tools, and other necessities, at reasonable rates.' Gibbes estimated that $100 million in gold had already been mined." Warren Heckrotte notes that "Streeter states that this is first map to show county boundaries. He also provided pertinent information on the mines and advise for equipment. In this supplement to his map, he included a description of California, its history, climate, soil, crops, bays, harbors, and rivers. Describing the "Accompaniment," Kurutz remarks that "Charles Gibbes came to California from Charleston, South Carolina, during the Gold Rush. The map extends only Santa Barbara on the south." The text with the title "Accompaniment to Gibbes' New Map of the Gold Region of California," with the preface to the text providing a list of authorities used to construct the map. 'Toualomne' City, Crescent City, and Empire City all appear along the Tuolumne River below 'Jackson's.' 'Downingville' and 'Goodhue's Bar' are shown on the Yuba, on either side of Rich Bar. As Wheat states, "This interesting map shows Santa Cruz County as 'Branciforte' and contains numerous place names in the mining region. Striking, very brightly colored map of much of California. Provenance: From the important cartographical library of Warren Heckrotte, his sale, Rare Cartography, Exploration and Voyages, Part II, December 3, 2015, Lot 152.įIRST MAP OF CALIFORNIA TO SHOW COUNTY BOUNDARIES (Streeter)įirst edition. Original publisher’s embossed brown cloth gilt, preserved in a modern quarter black morocco slipcase, marbled boards. Fine folding lithographed map with original hand color in full (very slight toning at folds). Drayton Gibbes and New York: Sherman & Smith, 1851. A New Map of the Gold Region in California.
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