What is the impact of the gold rush on California?

Answer 1

• much greater population is one
• being accepted as a free state of America
• California becoming a part of the American union
• People moved into previously unexplored areas
• Development of travel services and routes to transport goods, food etc.
• Allowed California, once the rushes had died down, to develop and progress economically
• Negative Effects Included Native Americans being attacked and pushed off their homeland
• Bad impacts on the environment from Gold Mining
• Food prices rising due to an increase in infertile land
• People starving due to expense and lack of food

Answer 2

It brought OVER 1/2 million men to California within 24 months.

Answer 3

the gold rush did not allow slavery and when california was trying to become a state it would become a free state and that balanced out the numbers of free and slave states.

Answer 4

The gold rush brought people to California, many cities were built, and hydrolic mining ruined the environment somewhat by hosing down hills.