California Gold Rush

feeling rich and being the first ones to mine gold must have been amazing. During 1849, people in California began mining gold and unlike today where small amounts were found, these people were finding huge amounts of gold. This is what eventually led to the gold rush of 1849 when the largest mass of people in history began to move into California to get some gold for themselves. Many ended up leaving everything they had to go on a journey to California to get richer. Overtime, modes of…

1. Hi my name is Taylor and I chose to study the serve water crisis happening in California. This water crisis has a start date of 2012 but in reality has been going on for much longer than that. 2. The drought in California isn’t just a natural disaster but is also a man made one in another critical sense by capitalist governments largely beholden to giant energy cooperation 's refusal to seriously address the issue. Since the states founding in 1850 water policies have never been carried…

beginning of the Gold Rush in 1848, Chinese immigrants, mostly poor China-men sought a better economic life in the United States. When Chinese American first arrived in California they were welcomed for their exotic customs, interesting clothing and strong accents. Soon, the white working class grew old of the Chinese because of the potential threat they posed for their livelihood and work, which lead to discrimination against the Chinese. Politicians that ran for office in California supported…

Laughter is the essence of a graceful comedy, equally important with the display of a dynamic performance. Trough time we have been enlighten with wonderful performances that included graceful movements, a true dynamic connection and storytelling background. At the present time, our comedy industry has come a long away, notably with more modern performances and unique connections between performer and viewer. The main question here is where does many of our famous comedians and performers…

Being an auditory learner it is easy to say silent films are not my thing. I like to know every word of every conversation in a film. Although I had watched few silent films prior to City Lights I didn 't really have a great perception of them, I just assumed i disliked them all. City Lights was a great film which I really enjoyed. My conceptions of silent films prior to this film were that they were boring, tried too hard to be funny, and difficult to understand because of the lack of dialogue.…

Leland Stanford, otherwise known as Leland Stanford, was a businessman and politician. He was a financier of the transcontinental railroad, and became president of the Central Pacific railroad. Stanford was also the first Republican governor in California and created a college, Stanford University. Along with these many accomplishments, Leland Stanford had a loving wife and family, as well as a son named Leland Stanford Jr. Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Watervliet, New York. His…

People have been living in yosemite for as long as eight thousand years. One of the most famous people was John Muir. Born in Scotland in 1838, Muir immigrated to Wisconsin with his family when he was 11 years old. After he was nearly blinded by an industrial accident, John Muir found himself driven to learn everything he could about the world. He briefly studied natural sciences at the University of Wisconsin but, ultimately, chose to spend his lifetime enrolled in what he called the…

On May 10, 1869, the American transcontinental railroad was fully opened to the public. The completion of this enormous engineering project played a significant role in the rapid expansion westward into the United States. Following the Civil War (1861-1865), the west evolved from a disconnected open space to a place where towns and cities would soon be constructed along the rail lines of the transcontinental railroad. Chinese laborers had a significant impact on the transcontinental railroad…

determined by how much of it a person has. Hand a homeless person and Donald Trump each $50 and they will react very differently. Gold, the original currency, is only valuable because humans say it is. And we only say its worth something because it is rare. The element gold is a pretty useless metal, but it practically, single-handedly populated California during the California gold rush. People who had none sometimes even became desperate and literally killed for it. Arguably, time is much more…

During 1815 to 1860, many people came to the West for different reasons. For example, Spanish came to North America to aggressive Native American’s territory, Chinese people came to the West to seek the gold. Because of the coming of these people they brought new creatures to the U.S. like horse and also brought in different cultures and more trade opportunities, which plays a key role of the West’s development. What was the impact of the horse on Native American economy and culture? When the…