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Why did unsuccessful prospectors stay in California after the Gold Rush?
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∙ 12y ago
The reason that Many people left California, but some stayed to become merchants who served miners is because The people found another way to become rich other than house keeping slavery and other things.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agobecause they didn't have the resources to get back home plus it took them about a half of a year to get there and it would take a half a year to get back. and many of the wagon train suffered sever casualties getting even more would have died getting back
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∙ 11y agoThey found another way to become rich. Levi Strauss is a good example. He was a tailor who made pants with brads at the seams and in the wet dirty conditions that the miners worked and lived the pants wore out, but with the brads they lasted longer. About 90% of the people who came for gold never found it, but they found other ways to get rich.
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Who were the California gold rush prospectors?
Gold Prospectors
Who did the California gold rush involve?
The California Gold Rush attracted prospectors from all over the world.
Which event took place first- the California Gold Rush or the Civil War?
The gold rush famously prompted the '49ers - gold prospectors - to flock to California in 1849. The Civil War didn't start until 1860.
What was another name for the miners of gold?
Gold miners could be called prospectors. Some prospectors who sought their fortunes during the California gold rush were called 49ers. (That gold rush began in 1848, but was really roaring in 1849, hence the nickname for those prospectors.)
What started the gold rush in South Africa?
Prospectors started the South African gold rush.
Who were the California gold rush prospectors?
Gold Prospectors
Who did the California gold rush involve?
The California Gold Rush attracted prospectors from all over the world.
Who did the gold rush?
The California Gold Rush attracted prospectors from all over the world.
Who did the gold rush involve?
The California Gold Rush attracted prospectors from all over the world.
When did the prospectors discover fold in California?
Do you mean gold? If you do, they were discovered in the California Gold Rush. The gold rush lasted from 1848-1855.
What is a 49er?
Someone from the California gold rush in 1849.
Who were the 49'rs?
prospectors who went to California during the gold rush
Why were gold rush prospectors called 49ers?
They were referred to as "49ers" because that was the year the California gold rush started (1849).
Who arrived in California looking for gold during the Gold Rush?
They were called prospectors. Most of them were Americans.
What is one route that the prospectors took to get to California during the gold rush?
the world will never know.
What was the relationship between the forty-niners and the gold rush?
the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849
Which event took place first- the California Gold Rush or the Civil War?
The gold rush famously prompted the '49ers - gold prospectors - to flock to California in 1849. The Civil War didn't start until 1860.
