James Marshall
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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THE GOLD RUSH
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HI MY NAME IS JAMES MARSHALL
I AM A CARPENTER AND I STARTED THE GOLD RUSH IN CALIFORNIA
One day in 1848 I was just building a sawmill on the American River and I saw something shining in the water. I reached for it and I instantly knew I had just
found gold.
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Soon it was leaked that I had found gold and people were rushing to come and find gold for themselves. By 1849 tens of thousands of gold seekers had joined the California gold rush.
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By the time the gold rush was over in 1852 I bet there had been over 250,000 people who had come to California and they were called the forty-niners.
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While everyone was now getting gold it made the economy go up. People would pay for things with gold or gold dust.
This also had a bad affect on the native people of California.
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The Californios lost their land to all of the newcomers.
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For California's Indians this invasion was dreadful. Warfare and disease decreased their numbers greatly.
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