The California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush was a period when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. It was in the year of 1848. The Gold Rush was important because James W. Marshall found the gold, John Sutter kept the secret and lead on with the discovery, and Samuel Brannan was an important buyer and seller of the gold. James W. Marshall was trying to solve problem that prevented the water from flowing forcefully enough to keep the water wheel turning properly.
The mining of silver destroyed not only the economy but also the culture of the natives through the loss of many lives.
“They shot Sid down like a dog on the courthouse steps at Welch!” (Savage 5). The miner’s beloved hero was slayed in front of their wives like animals and the miners were angry, angry that the only person that was brave enough to stand up for them, was now dead. “On to Mingo!” the miners were shouting together while forming angry mobs.
19th Century Goldfields, It 's been really hard finding Gold in the New South Wales Goldfields. I would go to places where the gold would be already found or there hadn’t been any gold there before. I don’t know why i did that but i was in a hurry to catch gold. When i went digging i wasn’t aloud to bring my women with me because it will make the other types of diggers educated and they would of become much more suspicious of them.
In 1871 British Columbia joined confederation and was the 6th province to be apart of the country known as “Canada”. “On July 20, 1871, British Columbia entered Confederation as our sixth province, extending the young Dominion of Canada to the Pacific Ocean.” (http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1871/ ) One of the main reasons B.C. was able to join Canada, was because of the Fraiser River Gold Rush. This was when 30,000 miners from the United States came to British Columbia to get in on the gold rush.
“During three months in the summer of 1848, a partnership of five miners collected $75,000 in gold” (Gillon 64). During the mid 1800s, people in America moved west for a fresh start in life or for cheaper land, this was called manifest destiny. Manifest destiny was the belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, the gold rush had more of a positive effect on America because it created a flouring economy and had more people travel west for a new life or jobs.
Over 300,000 people migrated to California during the California Gold Rush. One way that these migrants contributed to Westward Expansion was that they boosted the economy in California. Many small cities in California that had previously consisted of a few hundred citizens soon had tens of thousands of residents. Another way that the 49ers contributed to Westward Expansion was their impact on the Native Americans. As the mining industry in California grew, the Native’s sources for food were killed and contaminated by chemicals and silt.
In the passage concerning Andy Kvaternick, it is told from a third-person narrator. The narrator is speaking to the audience and the readers of the book. This is shown because the narrator is trying to describe what is going on in Kvaternick’s life. Because the narrator knows everything that he has experienced and is going to experience, it is a third-person narrator. The purpose of the passage is to express to Kvaternick what he should expect while working in the mines.
Argue for or against a resolution in Congress to create as national monument for those who moved to the West in the 1850s and 1860s, also known as pioneers. The discovery of gold in the Sacramento area in early 1848 started the Gold Rush, which is one of the most significant events that shaped American history during that time. Thousands of prospective gold miners, mostly men, traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area in search of wealth. Whatever the motivation, the pioneer men and women endured tremendous hardships and sacrificed a great deal to settle in the West Coast. For this reason, I feel that Congress should create a national monument for the pioneers who moved to the West in the 1850s and 1860s.
The investigation’s research question is “To what extent did the California Gold Rush have a significant role in the development of American transportation systems?” This essay focuses in particular on the growth and improvement of the transportation networks of the three main ways to California: the Cape Horn Route, the Panama Route, and the overland route. These three methods to ship goods and people were significantly impacted by the California Gold Rush and its consequent effects. This is an important topic to investigate because it is vital to understand how transportation networks develop as new methods of transportation arise in the modern world such as high speed rail and, in the future, possibly even space travel. It is necessary to
Westward Expansion Did you know that since there was not much wood, pioneers used cow chips for fuel? Can you imagine walking long distances or riding in a covered wagon for months with small amounts of food and water hoping to find gold? This is what the pioneers had to deal with as they traveled west. Pioneers moved west because they wanted more land.
The C.P.R - the railway was the reason why Canada become one colony. Canada had to put aside their differences and become a colony so the British bank could give them money to build a railway. John A. Macdonald realized that population and wealth would increase if the railway was built because it made it easier to do things so he made it a priority. The railway ran through the west and was a major reason why the prairies developed how it did. After settlers came because of free land even more came because they found that the railway ran through their.
Many films of the silent movie era are melodramas, which was a term used back then purely as a descriptive word to describe a movie and not a ‘negative’ term the way we use the term today. Chaplin’s film is a melodrama that invokes the emotions of his audience. Some elements of melodrama are present in Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush, the characteristics of a melodrama aid in analysing how melodramatic a silent movie is. An element of melodrama is, a situation - an occurring conflict in the film created by the screenwriter to evoke an intense emotional response from the viewers.
“So thousands of men, women, and children suffered not only the loss of their property but physical agony and even
The west was an expansion area which had a lot of resources and many opportunities for all type of people, they saw the west as the place you could do whatever you want and be whoever you want. The Gold Rush and the Homestead Act were two things that really impacted the way of how the US were formed changing the structure of the country and the point of view about expansion and the distribution of lands. The Gold Rush of 1849 was the most important event because it concentrated almost all of the attention of one nation in one objective. “When gold was discovered in west of the US, thousands of prospective miners traveled by sea or by land to San-Francisco” (History.com). Basically, lots of people traveled there to get rich and a prospective
