27:28 - 35:41 The Gold Rush
12. How long after the Mexican-American War did they discover gold in California?
13. Give at least one example of a large price increase,
14. What was wrong with the graves?
35:55 - 44:01
Frontier Life
15. What was the cause of "milk sickness?"
A caused by eating white snakeroot, which
contains a toric alcohol.
16. Who was the young man chopping wood?
17. What was Jackson's new American Indian policy?
18. How did people float their goods down the Mississippi?
19. Abraham Lincoln encounters a new invention on the Mississippi - what was it?
20. What was wrong with the first steamboats?