The Gold Rush: Hydraulic Mining In California

When the first foundings of Gold were cited in California, many citizens around the western coast and eastern coast fled to the scene of the spot being the Sierra Mountains near California. The Gold Rush led to huge expenses in labor shortages around the western coast; this funded opportunities for many residents who were in need of job opportunities. The economy would blossom and flourish from manufactured products, merchant business and agricultural products produced in California being grapes and tomatoes. Besides the economy, many investors including Thomas Larkin who forked in money to build schools and buildings to develop banks into arriving to the Golden State. Many Forty-niners who worked in this state lived far away in the east coast,
Although, this process would harm the habitat; it caused many people to earn jobs and decrease the unemployment rate. The name of the Nevada County dam would be named the English Dam and was constructed to support water to the mines during the dried summer. Conflicts rose around the 1880’s from the frightening lakes nearby being overclogged. Legislation resolved the issue with the Sawyer Decision, which stopped the Hydraulic Mining and create a new way to support the mines. The Malakoff Diggins around the Nevada County in California was formed as a state park to show off the use of the Hydraulic mining and how it affected the area around Nevada City. A known fact of the Malakoff Diggins was that its California largest hydro-mechanical mine. After the use of this destructive method, the local county of California decided that the use of wood would be helpful rather than Hydraulic mining. The demand of Lumber rose to build a large scale canal system to forbid the issue of Hydraulic process. When the wood arrive it founded the multi-million logging industry around the California dense forest. The Logging industry also funded jobs for 49ers
Almost all immigrants arriving to California were from various countries and distinctive ethnic groups. The Californian people truly believed for California to become an equal and non-racist state; that put pressure on the national government to rally together and negotiate a compromise. Thus this agreement would become the Compromise of 1850 which would affect California into growing as a free state. (History of California book, 1987) Although it benefited California as a whole, the balance between free and slave states wouldn’t equalize and be one of the causing factors of the civil war. Many confederate leaders attempted to cause controversy with California, when the south strive to split California with the Union and make their section a slave zone. However, this would attempt would fail by the fact that they would lose the Civil War and return to the Union with their pockets empty from hope of a confederate country. The freedmen would be in a perfect spot to have an advantage over freed slaves in the east. Mainly, the freed slave in the west had more opportunities to work and become successful without being called racist names; while on the east coast, these former slaves had to deal with the issue of black codes and the upcoming domestic terrorist in the 1900’s being the Ku Klux Klan. The freedmen of the south were often paid less and would on the spot work with their former slave