forty-niner

(noun)

A miner who took part in the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century.

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Examples of forty-niner in the following topics:

  • The California Gold Rush

    • The gold-seekers, known as "forty-niners" (in reference to the year 1849), often faced substantial hardships on their trip.
    • A forty-niner, so called because he came to California in 1849, pans for gold.

  • Gold Fever in the West

    • Thousands of "Forty-Niners" reached California, by sailing around South America (or taking a short-cut through disease-ridden Panama), or walked the California trail.

  • German Immigration

    • Following the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, a wave of political refugees fled to America who became known as "Forty-Eighters."
    • Prominent Forty-Eighters included Carl Schurz and Henry Villard.
    • Sentiment among German Americans was largely antislavery, especially among Forty-Eighters.

  • Passage 1.1

    • Aeneas, vir fortis, dux est.

  • Interest Groups

    • For example, Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • For example, Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  • African American Migration

    • To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

  • The World Bank

    • Forty-five countries pledged $25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries," aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA) which distributes the loans to 80 poorer countries.

  • Venn Diagrams (optional)

    • Forty percent of the students at a local college belong to a club and 50% work part time.

  • The Addition Rule

    • Forty-seven of the members are intermediate swimmers.
    • Forty of the advanced swimmers practice 4 times a week.

  • Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

    • By the 1920s, it was in more than forty countries and had more than 766,000 members paying dues at its peak in 1927.