Read the text and fill in the gaps with the verbs in the box in the past simple tense. There are two extra verbs.
make take come become get go be need
start sell leave
Jeans are everywhere! Everybody wears them! But before the 1960s, jeans..................... only working clothes. They ..................over a hundred years ago as trousers for the gold miners in California. Thousands of men ................ their homes and families and ............... West to find gold. This was called "the Gold Rush". These men............strong trousers so levi strouss........jeans for them. He ....... the cloth from their tents and wagons to sew the first pairs. The word 'jeans' comes from 'Genes', the French name for Genoa, a town in Italy, where the cloth first ............ from. Some decades later, jeans .................fashionable and everybody ............ wearing them.