The Gold Rush

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.…

have benefited the community by assisting and introducing the development of an inclusive and accepting nation. GOLD FRENZY WHICH CHANGED A NATION A discovery of gold in a waterhole in Bathurst in 1851, by a man named Edward Hargraves, had a profound impact on Australia and the rest of the world. People came in their thousands from places globally hoping to strike gold…

Compromise of 1850 - An effect of the California gold rush was the Compromise of 1850. The increase in population in California, due to the gold rush, had allowed for the establishment of a state constitution, a governorship, and a legislature. These were all a part of the Compromise of 1850, officiating California as a US State. There were a total…

discovered gold in Coloma, California in January 1848 he and the land owner tried desperately to keep it a secret. However, a newspaper called The Californian printed a note about the discovery that March. (Westward Expansion) The word spread so quickly that in 1949 around 90,000 people seeking gold flooded the area, these people were coined the “forty-niners.” Over the next few years it was estimated that 300,000 people had come to California to find gold and collect their portion. (California…

Bret Harte was a nineteenth century American author and poet. He is best remembered for his short fiction stories featuring gamblers, minors, and other figures of the California Gold Rush. Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” manages to be tragic without tipping into melodrama, and rustic without tripping over its local color. It is also a balancing act between the potentially new plot of a newborn baby boys effect within an all-male wild mining community, and Harte’s method of…

racism, which had a large effect on the Chinese. Golden Venture, an article that covered information on the racism “With the completion of the railroad and end of the gold strikes, Chinese immigrants became targets of a decade-long wave of violence and discrimination in western cities such as Los Angeles.”. This proves that when the gold rush was over the chinese were big targets of racism, because there were a lot of them spreading throughout America. Kate Hooper,and Jeanne Batalova also…

Continent. Expansion was inevitable for multiple reasons. During this time there was a growing population. Not only was there a growing population, but America was prosperous. As Manifest Destiny was occurring, in the west there was the California Gold Rush. Americans were becoming more prosperous as they expanded west. There were new opportunities out West, so families decided to migrate westward. Manifest Destiny is the 19th century expansion in the United States, it stretched from coast to…

as seems to happen so often in history, prejudice and greed once again raised its ugly voice. As a result, the hardworking and once admired men became the “enemy” of men who felt the color of their skin madethem superior and more entitled. If the Gold Rush never happened, the harsh and unfair pressure of racism may not have oppressed the hard working Chinese immigrants and condemned so many of them to a harsh life of poverty and ill…

Have you ever wanted something but it was just too difficult to get to? Well when the gold rush was around the people or stampeders were all trying to get rich quick by finding gold. In the article “Klondike Gold Rush” and the passage from A Woman Who Went to Alaska and in the video “City Of Gold,” all talk about the gold rush and how people dropped everything just to try and get rich quickly. The passage, article, and the video all talk about how people dropped their normal life just to try and…

In California from 1849 when the gold rush began, to 1852 there was an influx of 25,000 Chinese migrants and also many Japanese migrants to california to seek gold. The gold was the main pull factor for migrants at this time because they believed that they were going to become very wealthy but they overestimated how much gold they were going to find. China had lost the First Great Opium war to Great Britain and this devastated the economy for China. The gold rush in the eyes of the Chinese…