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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. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2 ]
A Gold Rush was on in California. ... thousands and changing the state of California into a state of frenetic activity and get-rich-quick schemes -- not unlike its current image as the home of ...
White colonists from the Southern and Eastern United States brought their systems of organized slavery to California. Several thousand [6] free and enslaved people of African ancestry were part of the California Gold Rush (1848–1855). Some were able to buy their freedom and freedom for their families, primarily in the South, with the gold ...
Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. ... Even though California was deemed a free state, however, many regions tolerated slavery. Some 200 to 300 ...
A gold rush changed California's history. That precious metal is back, striking the same reaction.
Americans and foreigners of many different countries, statuses, classes, and races rushed to California for gold. Almost all (~96%) were young men under age 40. [43] Women in the California Gold Rush were initially less than 4% of the population in 1850 and had many opportunities to do new things and take on new tasks in women poor California.
In 1859, gold was discovered in California by a group of prospectors, including a tin manufacturer named W.S. Bodey. And the Gold Rush began.