Gold Rush

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Gold Rush

• By
• Brenna

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Gold Fever

• Began in 1848
• People wanted gold
• It was in San Francisco

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Routes to California

• Cape Horn
• N.Y. to C.A. in clippers ships
• Isthmus to Panama

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Life in the Mining Camps

• Tents and covered wagons
• Scarce food
• Little amounts of medicine
• Many miners died

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Growing Cities

• Mining cities grew quickly
• Entreprenurs sold goods to miners
• Most women worked
• Businesses charged high prices

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Ways to Mine for gold

• 1848-1849 simple tools
• mid 1850s- hydraulic mining
• 1884 hydraulic mining against the law

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The Thirty First State

• Monterey convention
• Constitution for California
• California becomes a state

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The End of Ranchos

• Squatters settled on ranchos
• Land act of 1851
• Rancheros couldnt prove ownership
• Way of life ended

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Bibliography

• internet
• nettrekker.com
• google.com
• Social Studies textbook

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The End