The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. News of the discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 men, women, and children coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately 150,000 arrived by sea while the remaining 150,000 arrived by land.
In March, 1848, Samuel Brannan, a newspaper publisher, strode through the streets of San Francisco, holding aloft a vial of gold, shouting "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" With the news of gold, many families trying their luck at Californian farming decided to go for the gold, becoming some of California's first miners.
On August 19, 1848, the New York Herald was the first major newspaper on the East Coast to report that there was a gold rush in California; on December 5, President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in an address to Congress. Soon, waves of immigrants from around the world, later called the "forty-niners," invaded the Gold Country of California or "Mother Lode
The early gold-seekers, called "forty-niners," traveled to California by sailing boat and in covered wagons across the continent, often facing substantial hardships on the trip. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a small settlement to a boomtown, and roads, churches, schools and other towns were built throughout California. A system of laws and a government were created, leading to the admission of California as a free state in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850.
New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service and railroads were built. The business of agriculture, California's next major growth field, was started on a wide scale throughout the state. However, the Gold Rush also had negative effects: Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.
The California Gold Rush.
caifronia gold rush! (:
people were mining for gold
The search for gold.
because of the farming and industrial options over there
In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
The gold rush.
January 24th 1848 over 80,000 people went it marked the start of the California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. No one could keep a secret and by 1849 people were leaving their jobs and homes in the east and travelling to California in the hopes of finding some gold. Some estimate that over 300,000 people came to California. They were given the name, the "49'ers" as a reference to 1849.
The gold Rush had attracted many people to migrate and to come to California in 1848 and 1849. THE GOLD RUSH
Uh, I think one of them is the gold rush. The gold rush in California was from 1848 to about 1854 and loads of people migrated to California because of it, so probably this was one of the reasons?
The California Gold Rush
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.
The Gold Rush.
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people began moving west
Many people began moving to the West
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
the gold rush (1848-1855) 300,000 people were drawn to California by the news of gold on the streets..
In the 1930's (during the dust bowl) people migrated to California.