It didn't matter if it was true or not. Once the first newspaper published the headline that gold was found the rush was on. People dream about getting rich without a lot of work, but getting gold is a lot more work than most think it is.
Gold was discovered in 1848 but the rush first hit when news spread worldwide in 1849, and it continued for about 10 years.
John Marshall found the first nuggets of gold at Sutter's Mill where he worked. The gold was in the traces and he took the gold to Sutter who kept it a secret. Sutter knew that once the news was out he would see a rush to California and it would cost him everything. Several months went by before in 1848 the news was spread far and wide by a news headline in San Francisco and the rush to CA was on. Sutter was right in his instincts on what would happen and he did loose his land, his fort, and his money, but in 1850 CA became a state due to the influx of people looking for gold.
Sequence of events that led to the California gold rush are:a. In 1839, Swiss immigrant John Sutter received permission to start a colony in California near Sacramento River.b. In January 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall while building sawmill beside a nearby river found gold.c. Sutter's workers quit to search for gold and news of the discovery spread across America.d. President Polk added to the national excitement by confirming the California gold strike in his farewell message to Congress in December 1848.e. In 1849 about 80,000 gold-seekers came to California.
Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the South Fork of the American River east of what is now Sacramento, California. However, the subsequent Gold Rush happened rather gradually at first, then built as word spread worldwide.
People migrated west to California in the early 1800s because there was tons of gold in California so pretty much it was mainly the miners who migrated (moved) west to get as much gold as they can. I know this because we very recently learned about in history class at school.
Gold was discovered in 1848 but the rush first hit when news spread worldwide in 1849, and it continued for about 10 years.
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.
Sam Brannan
the gold rush (1848-1855) 300,000 people were drawn to California by the news of gold on the streets..
The 1849 California gold rush attracted Americans from all walks of life. Of course the first Americans involved were miners. As news of the gold discovery spread, people from US cities, and farmlands became gold miners. Thus California's population instantly grew in size and a good number of the new miners became rich, not all however.
there spread out radomley probs about 50
John Marshall found the first nuggets of gold at Sutter's Mill where he worked. The gold was in the traces and he took the gold to Sutter who kept it a secret. Sutter knew that once the news was out he would see a rush to California and it would cost him everything. Several months went by before in 1848 the news was spread far and wide by a news headline in San Francisco and the rush to CA was on. Sutter was right in his instincts on what would happen and he did loose his land, his fort, and his money, but in 1850 CA became a state due to the influx of people looking for gold.
Sequence of events that led to the California gold rush are:a. In 1839, Swiss immigrant John Sutter received permission to start a colony in California near Sacramento River.b. In January 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall while building sawmill beside a nearby river found gold.c. Sutter's workers quit to search for gold and news of the discovery spread across America.d. President Polk added to the national excitement by confirming the California gold strike in his farewell message to Congress in December 1848.e. In 1849 about 80,000 gold-seekers came to California.
James MArshall discovered gold in California, and that news spread rather quickly throughout the United States...People went to the west to search for gold (gold rush), and settled in the west permanately. Sorry for the simple answer, but I hope it helped.
Following Edward Hargraves's discovery of payable gold in February 1851, the government made an official announcement, in May1851. The news quickly spread to other communities.
how did the colonists spread news to other colonies about what was happening
As the United States expanded westward, adventurers and pioneers headed out to the new territories to explore them. In January 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, CA. The man who discovered it was James W. Marshall, a carpenter who had built the mill. It did not take long for the news to spread, and soon thousands of people descended on that region of California, hoping they too would get lucky and find gold. The "gold rush" was well under way in late 1848 and continued into 1849.