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During California’s Gold Rush in the late 1840s and 1850s migration to the state increased. As a result, foreigners who came to the state, and preexisting Californian residents experienced a challenging and hostile environment established by its Yankee community. Gold had been discovered by Sutter and Marshal and the discovery of gold could not be kept secret. News of gold being discovered spread like wildfire across the nation and around the world (Erik Lecture, 1/27). Susan Lee Johnson…

California Gold Rush was really a big deal in the 1800s when the first piece of gold was discovered the people were going crazy for the gold they all wanted to sale the gold or keep it or show it to everyone and make everyone come to their land and because of the gold being the first gold ever discovered they were becoming to have money each day. Then California grew bigger and bigger with people and when that had happened California was getting rich and richer. The spark ignited the gold rush…

event was the California Gold Rush that occured on January 24th, 1848 to 1855. John Sutter, Samuel Brannan, and James W. Marshall were all part of this large event that made it so important today. The gold rush is a significant part of American history because it was the largest mass migration that occurred in America during that time. John Augustus Sutter, lived in Sacramento, California after a long trip from Switzerland. John played a key role in the Gold Rush and lived from 1803 to 1880.…

fostered an entrepreneurial spirit that persists today (Elder 1). The effect of it was out of this world, it had triggered a stampede of miners from all over the world going to Califor-nia to find instant wealth. What had made the California gold rush social and a literal event was not just because of the four hundred million dollars in gold which was extracted by miners from 1848-1855. It was the atmosphere or swagger, heightened expectations of finding gold, and boomtown hokum that…

Graniteville an Important Wild West Town: Bibliography on Graniteville During the Gold Rush There is a story that says “two Miners were able to get 17,000 dollars worth of gold in only 7 days” (PBS). In the 1800’s Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which Created a surge of people want to come in the search for the gold filled quartz veins. Graniteville stands as a notable example of the Wild West. “Gold was discovered in Sacramento in…

The California Gold Rush research essay The California Gold Rush was a huge event. The Gold lured hundreds of thousands to California for the start of a new land and for the search for gold. But it wasn't easy for everyone to find gold. The miners there had hard times finding gold. Not all of them even survived either, many of them took long hours and days to mine gold. The miners would become sick to and it would spread everywhere. This research explaining what the miners had to experience…

California Gold Rush is arguably one of the most important events in United States history. The gold rush caused what is considered to be the largest mass migration in United States history, bringing in 300,000 people by 1855, 25% of whom were immigrants from other countries. Not only was California rich in people, it was rich in gold. Approximately 750,000 pounds, two billion dollars’ worth, of gold was extracted from the earth from the time gold was first found in 1848 to the time the rush…

during the American Gold Rush weighed nearly 195 pounds (Holub 3-4). This was just a small part of the 750,000 pounds of gold that was extracted during the Gold Rush - equivalent to 375 tons! (History.com Staff). “And [The Gold Rush] started by accident! (Holub 5).” The American Gold Rush affected the United States because of the anxiety to arrive at Sutter’s Mill, lots of americans growing very rich, and inflation increasing majorly. One of the major effects the Gold Rush had on the United…

discovery of gold in California in 1848. The news of gold quickly spreads across the United States and around the world. Its spark has brought thousands of people to leave their family, work and home in order to search for gold. The California Gold Rush affected so many people that some was able to become successful, while the rest was unsuccessful in their life and lives in poverty (Sheafer 5). This has made modern economists wonder with question that if people knew that they’ll end up taking…

spread ,but once it did people from all over the world went to California in hope of getting rich by the California gold rush, Individuals had to face plenty of challenges to get to the california gold rush like the living condition, the risks they had to take, and the disease the miners and pioneers had to overcome to survive. The miners living conditions on the way to the gold rush were horrible, some say. Miners describe the living conditions on the boasts as smelly, dirty, and very…