Estados Unidos Julia M. Essay: The California Gold Rush Until 1849‚ California always used to be a sleepy‚ little-known backwater. However‚ with the California Gold Rush suddenly everything changed. The city‚ people‚ culture‚ infrastructure as well as the economy. In no time the California Gold Rush transformed the isolated island of tranquility to an unruly emporium of business and bedlam. When we think about the California Gold Rush today‚ many of us only know about the good sides of
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California Gold Rush 5/1/13 The California Gold Rush Before the Gold Rush of 1849‚ California was a sparsely populated‚ unimportant territory of the United States mostly inhabited by the people of Mexico. However‚ that all changed when on January 24‚ 1848; carpenter and small time sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River that would forever change the history of California and America1. Not only did the Gold Rush lead to California’s
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as the Californian Gold Rush. This Gold Rush would cause an influx of thousands of people endeavoring to get rich quick from the copious amounts of the precious metals in the ground. Although the conception of this idea being reality was tempting‚ many never made it big‚ causing a negative view of the Gold Rush to be born. Even due to this fact‚ the Gold Rush would refine and revise the U.S. economy into something it had never experienced before. How did the California Gold Rush Impact
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Gold Rush to Rail Road Invention The gold rush began at the beginning of the 1848 and continued till 1853. According to the author Orsi of the book The Elusive Eden‚ the Gold was first discovered by James Marshall at Sutter’s mill. This discovery of gold news started spreading all around the California and around the world. By the end of the 1848 news had reached Hawaii‚ Mexico‚ the Pacific Northwest‚ the Pacific Coast of South America‚ China‚ the East Coast of the United States‚ and Europe. The
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The summer of 1848‚ the Gold Rush days. Miners have heard of the riches that await in the valleys of Northern California. They have dropped everything and traveled to California in hopes of finding gold. When they arrived‚ they were not alone‚ already living there were Native Americans. The miners believed the Native Americans wanted to steal their rewards‚ so they killed them to get them out of the way. They didn’t care about them‚ all they wanted was to get rid of them. As Serra states‚ "It is
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The Gold Rush Effects on Gender “I have enough- God bless them- I will return.”1 These are the famous last words of men who had ventured into California to partake in the Gold Rush‚ only to realize a yearning to see their family. Many men underwent the hardships and the sacrifices in order to strike rich in this gamble‚ many men succeeded while many more failed. Often forgotten are the families that remained back home while the husband‚ father‚ or brother went west to strike gold. The families
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The Gold Rush was a significant event that affected not only the development of California‚ but also the outcome of the United States of America. It was a period of time in American history in which large groups of people migrated with hopes to find gold in California‚ which proved to be crucial for the success and growth of California. The California Gold Rush had a major impact on the development of California‚ as it caused the economy and cities of California to flourish. This event caused major
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Gold was first discovered on January 24‚ 1848‚ by James Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma‚ California. Once gold was discovered and the economy of California began to really take off‚ it did not take long for the government officials to recognize the advantage of allowing California to join the union. As a result‚ in 1850 California was accepted as a free state. Young men with a pick and wash pan in hand left their wives and children to move to California. Men used dams and flumes to expose stream
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The author of the article “Klondike Gold Rush” starts his story from when the gold rush started and how it started. In the article it says that it all started when two ships docked in San Francisco and Seattle carrying miners with bags of gold. When the word got out to the press then everyone wanted gold. A lot of different people went to the gold fields. Some were big and some were small. These miners were called stampeders. Within 6 month about 100‚000 gold seekers started there journey to the
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The movie “The Gold Rush” was written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1925. Some of the main characters included Charlie Chaplin as The Lone Prospector‚ Mack Swain as Big Jim‚ Tom Murray as Black Larsen‚ Malcolm Waite as Jack‚ Georgia Hale as Georgia‚ and Henry Bergman as Hank. The movie is set in the 1920’s time period‚ the same period it was filmed in. The Gold Rush is a story about The Lone Prospector (Charlie) in search of gold. Through his travels in the snow‚ he comes upon a cabin
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