THE GOLD RUSH

• THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH (1848–1855) WAS A PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHICH BEGAN ON JANUARY 24, 1848, WHEN GOLD WAS FOUND.

THE GOLD RUSH

FACT 1

• On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, Was a carpenter born in New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American river of the Sierra Nevada mountains near Coloma, California.

FACT #2

• ABOUT 2 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH A METAL WAS TAKEN DURING THE GOLD RUSH

FACT 3

• THERE WAS BUSINESSES THAT WAS IN CALIFORNIA BY THE POPULATION INflux, and the more it improve the longer distance of trading.

FACT 4

• Although Gold Rushers were predominantly Americans, gold seekers also traveled from Latin America, Europe, China and Australia.

FACT 5

• Miners found more than 75,000 pounds of gold during the California gold rush.

FACT 6

• They had been trying to get the gold from the ground but then they figure they came from a stream.

FACT 7

• Gold Mining reached its financial peak in 1852, $81 million worth of gold was taken from the ground.

FACT 8

• after a town was deserted of gold the miners left the boomtowns and they turned into ghost towns.

FACT 9

• The gold rush had influenced many other countries like Asia ,Europe and Latin America.

FACT 10

• People would spend everything they had to search for gold. These people became known as “49ers.” Also the name of the professional football team in San Francisco.

FACT#11

• After 1850, the surface gold in California unimaginably disappeared, even as miners were still arriving.

FACT 12

• For many people of the miners it was a dangerous trip dealing with starvation and sickness many of the miners didn't survive the gold rush.

FACT 13

• Gold mining towns was blasting with popularity all over the region, with shops, saloons, brothels and, other businesses trying to make their own gold fortune.

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