The Gold Rush
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- Created on: 05-03-14 18:43
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- The Gold Rush
- January 24th 1848
- Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California
- Gold found by James.W.Marshall
- Gold found by James.W.Marshall
- Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California
- 300,000 people went over
- arrived by sea, east overland
- Excited about being rich
- called the 'forty-niners'
- San Francisco went for 200 residents to 36,000
- built churches, schools etc.
- The gold
- could be picked off the riverbeds
- worth tens of billions of todays dollars
- reality.
- arguments over the gold.
- wasting their money on drinks and gambling.
- becoming drunk
- harsh, cold weathers
- People becoming greedy and obsessive.
- reverend thought it was a sin.
- Indians were against it also.
- Prostitution started.
- January 24th 1848
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