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Title: The Gold Rush


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The Gold Rush
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  • California Gold Rush the flocking of people to
    California in search of gold

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  • 1.Forty-niners gold seekers who went to
    California

Named this because most left home in 1849
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At that time, gold fever was contagious
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  • a. gold-mining was difficult
  • and few became rich

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  • b. most had no mining experience and
    came to prospect or search for gold

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  • 2. Most popular method was
  • placer mining put dirt in a
  • pan and ran water over it
  • to uncover gold pieces

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  • 3. Mining camps sprung up
  • wherever people gathered to
  • search for gold

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  • 4. Most miners were young,
  • unmarried men

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  • 5. Gold fever lured miners from
  • around the world
  • a. Chinese immigrants known as gam saan
    haak

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  • 6. Californias economy changes overnight

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  • a. California becomes a state after
  • only 2 years because population
  • is so large
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