the purpose of the gold rush was for people to get more money. back then it hard was to get alot of money.when James marshall foud gold he didnt believe it.so he took it down to john sutter.after thhey were sure it was gold the wanted to keep it a secret,but one of the workers found gold and told every one.
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God Rushes occurred when some prospector found a fair amount of gold, usually in remote and harsh lands! Most who followed him lived in great hardship and made little if any money from their ventures.
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the older people who were involved in the gold rush sadly passed away and the gold they had were to be found by relitives or friends. they died!
James A. Polk was the president when the 1849 gold rush near Sacramento CA happened.
When the California gold rush began in 1848, James Knox Polk was the President of the United States, but it continued during the Presidencies of Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and tapered off by the time Franklin Pierce was President, in 1855. There have been several gold rushes in the United States: Carolina Gold Rush (1799, George Washington, John Adams) Georgia Gold Rush (1828, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson) Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1859, James Buchanan) Idaho Gold Rushes (1860-1863, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln) Black Hills Gold Rush (1874-1878) (U.S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes) Mount Baker Gold Rush (1897 to 1920s, William McKinley to Calvin Coolidge) Fairbanks Gold Rush (1902-1905, Theodore Roosevelt) A reference for Gold Rushes in United States is below:
California's population jumped high in numbers due to a flow of settlers coming hoping to make their fortune by finding gold in said gold rush.
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