Life in California was also hard because towns would rise over night not in days. But there only entertainment was gambling, and drinking. With very few women on the west coast at the time women were valued more than on the east coast. Also the town were very diverse in population with “large numbers of French, Germans, Americans, Mexicans, and Chinese” living in the area (Gillon 69). And people described these towns as “the dirtiest place in creation” (Gillon 69). And by the time a town’s potential was gone or there was no more gold than people would leave with thousands of tents left and litter everywhere. So really while this helped the economy it wasn’t really a negative effect on America.
