tell me everything ou know about the california gold rush
2007-03-15 05:22:45 · 6 answers · asked by KenKel1122 3 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Los Angeles
Well we are not going to do your homework for you. There are entire books on this, way too much to be put here. If you go to google and just type in California Gold Rush you will see tons of info.
2007-03-15 06:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by OC1999 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began in January 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. As news of the discovery spread, some 300,000 people came to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
These early gold-seekers, called "forty-niners", traveled to California by sailing ship and in covered wagons across the continent, often facing substantial hardships on the trip. While most of the newly-arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia and Asia. At first, the prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning, and later developed more sophisticated methods of gold recovery which were adopted around the world. Gold worth billions of today's dollars was recovered, leading to great wealth for a few; many, however, returned home with little more than they started with. Some made it rich. It was all by chance.
The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a tiny hamlet of tents to a boomtown, and roads, churches, schools and other towns were built. A system of laws and a government were created, leading to the admission of California as a state in 1850. New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service and railroads were built. The business of agriculture, California's next major growth field, was started on a wide scale throughout the state. However, the Gold Rush also had negative effects: Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.
2007-03-15 06:23:22 · answer #2 · answered by Capt. Obvious 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
John Marshall became right into a wood worker shrunk to construct a water powered sawmill. together as engaged on the tail race of the mill small yellow rocks the size of peas have been got here across. the employees have been uncertain it became into gold. at last they melted the gold "rocks" on a shovel and desperate they have been gold. The locate became into casually suggested in correspondence back east . And the 1849 California gold rush became into on. gold rush became into born. Mr Marshall became into employed by using many agencies to locate gold for them yet he became into no miner and had little fulfillment.verify my information as that's purely off the precise of my head.
2016-12-18 14:21:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darn I would have liked to have seen that show......The History of California is IMHO some of the most fascinating you will find. The mass migration of gold rush people to California was and may still be today the largest VOLUNTARY concentrated migration of people in THE WORLD in history......
2007-03-15 06:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by Paris Hilton 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It began when a guy working at Sutters Mill on the American River found gold, I think in 1847, the main rush started in 1849.
2007-03-15 06:08:13 · answer #5 · answered by Ricoba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was just a show about this on the history channel.
darned if i can remember what they said.
2007-03-15 06:24:09 · answer #6 · answered by chieromancer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋