Aim: Why did the mining boom bring growth to the West?

We will learn that……….

1. a mining boom brought growth to the West.

Tier I Tier II Tier III

discovered Lode Big business

Mine Boom Towns

ProducedPoor

Lode

• Comstock Lode• ore deposit• Place where valuable

minerals, gold, or silver are found

Lode

• To save

Mine

• Mine produced over $500 million dollars in 20 years.

• a place where minerals, gold or silver may be obtained, either by excavation or by washing the soil.

• A cave or deep hole in the ground where gold or silver is found

Mine

• a form of the possessive case of I used as a predicate adjective:

• The car is mine.

Miners

• People who work in a mine

Produced

• Mine produced over $500 million dollars in 20 years.

• Yielded/Made1. Mine made over $500

million dollars in 20 years.

Poor

• Because of poor working conditions and poor pay many mine workers formed unions in the West.

• Inadequate• Bad/very little money

Poor

• having little or no money, goods, or other means of support:

• a poor family living on welfare.

Big Business

• Big Business bought land claims from miners.

• large business, commercial, and financial firms taken collectively, esp. when considered as a group having shared attitudes and goals and exercising control over economic policy, politics, etc.

• any large business

Boom Towns

• Towns that developed quickly around mines.

Let’s write a story

• Use words from your Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III word list to write a story

• Each group member will pick a word from the word list and write a sentence using that word to form a story

Comstock Lode

• In 1859 Henry Comstock discovered a huge deposit of Gold and Silver in Nevada.

1. Thousand of California miners moved to Nevada.

2. Mine produced over $500 million dollars in 20 years.

Big Business

• Mining became big business in the West.

1. Miners could not afford equipment to work the mines.

2. Big Business bought land claims from miners.

Big Business• Mining becomes very

dangerous1. Miners used unsafe

equipment.2. Miners worked in dark

tunnels and breathed hot, stuffy air.

3. Miners suffered from lung disease caused by dusty air.

4. Miners were killed by explosions or cave-ins.

5. Miners were killed by fire.

Mining was one of the most dangerous jobs in the country.

• Because of poor working conditions and poor pay many mine workers formed unions in the West.

1. Union - an organization of workers; a labor union.

1. Who was Henry Comstock?2. What made mining unsafe?3. Why do you think people from other countries

came to America to work on Mines?• miner who found a rich and deep deposit of

gold and silver in Nevada in 1859• unsafe equipment, poor conditions inside the

mine. dusty air, cave-ins, fire• needed jobs; thought they could get rich by

mining; to escape poor conditions in their countries

Settlers

• People from all over the world came to work in the western mines.

1. Eastern U.S.2. Central & South

America3. Asia

New TownsBoomtowns

Boomtowns – Communities that grew rapidly when a mine opened.

What happened to boomtowns when mines closed?

They disappeared just as quickly as they started when the mine closed .

Boomtowns

• While men worked the mines, women washed, cooked, made clothes, and chopped wood.

• Women also raised families, established schools, and wrote for newspapers.

1. What is a Boomtown?2. How did women help support the boomtown

economy?3. Why do you think boomtowns often

disappeared after the local mine closed?• created by the mining industry to support the

workers• washing, cooking, making clothes, chopping

wood, raising families, teaching, and newspaper writing

• the whole economy centered around the mine, so when the mine left, the economy faltered.

Written Assignment

In two sentences summarize how the mining boom brought growth to the West.

Homework 1A