The Gold Rush was one of the biggest events that have happened in the United States of America prior to 1848. It was one of the biggest economic sources of California and the Californian people. 1849 Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada 's on the California side. Many people around the world heard about it and traveled all over the place from China, Japan and even down in South America. It was a Gold frenzy that had set in from Novice miners to big industry started a gold rush to California. Many of those people were excited because they would have make a lot of revenues from the gold. During that time gold was worth so much to where people will fight about it. Greed had took in over so many people that they even fought about it. During
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The gold rush had grab attention from all over the world. A big number of immigrants had also arrived in the Sierras and also have partaken in the gold rush. It wasn 't easy for the immigrants. The Californians who also worked in the gold mines made it very difficult for them as some made them work as slaves for them, physically abusing them and …show more content…
The workers had ramshackle living conditions. Lots of tents and shacks in the mining camps are where people had settled. During the this time, there were absolutely no women present in the area and so it was hard to live up to a normal lifestyle. The camps could be violent places to be, which had caused many problems. Also, some men that came from the east coast and left their jobs weren 't as successful as they thought they would get. They had come to California with the hope of getting rich in a few months or years, but very few of the individual miners made a big strike. Most of them barely got enough gold to benefit from. It 's been an era of the individual miner that only lasted about a year. After that, mining became increasingly dominated by companies which would employ miners, but keep the profits for themselves.
The Gold Rush had a big impact on the environment. They also had environmental degradation issues in the mining region. The miners came together and had taken down most of the trees to build shelters and mining equipment. This made the soil, loosen up and it resulted in major erosion when rains came. In addition, as companies began to take over their increasingly would use pumps to blast away the earth to sift for gold. The remaining material would just be dumped in rivers and left to float
The gold rush had grab attention from all over the world. A big number of immigrants had also arrived in the Sierras and also have partaken in the gold rush. It wasn 't easy for the immigrants. The Californians who also worked in the gold mines made it very difficult for them as some made them work as slaves for them, physically abusing them and …show more content…
The workers had ramshackle living conditions. Lots of tents and shacks in the mining camps are where people had settled. During the this time, there were absolutely no women present in the area and so it was hard to live up to a normal lifestyle. The camps could be violent places to be, which had caused many problems. Also, some men that came from the east coast and left their jobs weren 't as successful as they thought they would get. They had come to California with the hope of getting rich in a few months or years, but very few of the individual miners made a big strike. Most of them barely got enough gold to benefit from. It 's been an era of the individual miner that only lasted about a year. After that, mining became increasingly dominated by companies which would employ miners, but keep the profits for themselves.
The Gold Rush had a big impact on the environment. They also had environmental degradation issues in the mining region. The miners came together and had taken down most of the trees to build shelters and mining equipment. This made the soil, loosen up and it resulted in major erosion when rains came. In addition, as companies began to take over their increasingly would use pumps to blast away the earth to sift for gold. The remaining material would just be dumped in rivers and left to float