California Gold Rush
Published on Nov 24, 2015
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It began on January 24, 1848. Gold was found by James W. Marshall at Shutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The gold rush brought 300,000 people to California from the rest of the U.S. and abroad.
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Approximately half arrived by sea, and half arrived overland from the eats, on the California trail and the Gila River trail.
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The gold seekers were called "forty-niners". They traveled by sailing ship and covered wagon and often faced substantial hardship on the trip. The Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. When the Gold Rush first started people could pick up the gold nuggets and loose gold from the ground. Later gold was recovered from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning.
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California's name became indelibly connected with the Gold Rush, and fast success in a new world became known as the California Dream. Overnight California gained the international reputation as the "golden state". Generations of immigrants have been attracted by the California Dream. California farmers, oil drillers, movie makers, airplane builders, and dot-com entrepreneurs have each had their boom times in the decades after the Gold Rush.
The human and environmental costs of the Gold Rush were substantial. Native Americans, dependent on traditional hunting, gathering and agriculture, became the victims of starvation, as gravel, silt and toxic chemicals from prospering operations killed fish and destroyed habitats.
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