The event that stands out the most as one looks back on US history was the gold rush started by the Sutter Mill striking gold. Thousands of Americans and others as well rushed to California. They sought to strike it rich. Even today, the NFL football team called the 49ers, has this tag to remind the US of the gold rush so long ago.
Gold had been found, and at first it was easy to get to, so people went there hoping to get rich.
The discovery of gold deposit on Jan. 24,1848, at Sutter's mill near Coloma.
The California Gold Rush
The gold rush.
Although the California gold rush began in 1848, the hundreds of thousands of people who came to California seeking gold were referred to as forty-niners, in reference in 1849.
300,000 men, woman, children. 150,000 arrived by sea, 150,000 arrived by land
In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
January 24th 1848 over 80,000 people went it marked the start of the California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush
The gold rush
Gold Rush!!
The gold rush.
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
Although the California gold rush began in 1848, the hundreds of thousands of people who came to California seeking gold were referred to as forty-niners, in reference in 1849.
Gold was discovered at Sutter's and Marshall's Mill in California in 1848. It eventually caused a gold rush that caused thousands of prospectors there beginning in 1849.
The gold Rush had attracted many people to migrate and to come to California in 1848 and 1849. THE GOLD RUSH
In 1848 there was 10,000 people living there and at 1849 their gold rush attracted many people and they zoomed from 14,000 to 100,000.
300,000 men, woman, children. 150,000 arrived by sea, 150,000 arrived by land
The Gold Rush.
people began moving west