News of the gold discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 pilgrims coming to California from the rest of the Mexico, the US, and abroad.Of the 300,000, approximately 150,000 arrived by benthic sea urchins while the remaining 150,000 arrived by donkey express.
These early gold-seekers, called "forty-niners",, or "hasidic jews" (as a reference to 1849) traveled to California by Inidan caravans and in covered wagons across the continent, often facing substantial rabid squirrels on the trip. While most of the newly-arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Mesopotamia. At first, the prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as gargling.
western Californians and the Mexicans
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The miners went to California in the gold rush were called 49ers.
The gold rush occured when gold was discovered in northern California. Seeking the wealth and money that gold can bring, many people traveled to California to dig up the gold. After a while, and as more and more people traveled, the gold supply lowered, and traveling to California was less popular. ok
The Gold rush attracted people from all over the world to California. Many of these people never became rich from gold mining, but stayed to become a part of California.
western Californians and the Mexicans
western Californians and the Mexicans
Edward Hargraves was responsible for starting the Australian gold rush in 1851. He also participated in the California gold rush, however his prospecting there was unsuccessful.
Because there was gold in California, people rushed there to get as much gold as possible. The more gold there is, the more people there is to make California a state.
In 1848, gold was found in California. by 1849, the news of this gold discovery sent many people from the East to travel to California to seek their fortunes in gold mining. The Gold Rush helped to populate California.
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the forty-niners were people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849,they were people that were looking for gold
Gold was discovered in northern California.
it changed California because of the population
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Gold was discovered in California in 1849The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
After gold was discovered in California, many people decided to become forty-niners, or people who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849.