How Did The California Gold Rush Of 1849

Adrian Sosa

Mrs Brimhall

English

February 24, 2017

The california Gold rush of 1849 The california gold rush of 1849 reshaped california forever despite you agree or not it has been done and cannot be changed. Gold was discovered accidentally in california , discovered near the American river this historic find would change california's future. Across America, many people made the choice to head on over to California hoping to get rich. prospectors came from all over the world from far away as europe. The gold rush of 1849 set the foundation for california’s future success. Through the increase of entrepreneur, the gold rush made america more socially diverse by drawing many cultures from around the world. The California

As a result of the rush, led to the expansion the american nation. The gold rush brought thousands of people to the foothills, with hopes of getting rich. Yet only portion of the thousands of miners would even approach wealth. The rush reformed California history, It gave California its motto, “Eureka” which means, “I’ve found it”, referring to the finding of gold. The California Gold Rush started in a small town on a small mill on the American River. John Sutter came to California with his mind on the potential agricultural wealth to gain from all the prospectors. John had purchased a piece of land next to the american river so that he could build his very own mill on it. Not long after Marshall would be faced with a problem that the river was not deep enough. Marshall would have to increase the depth of the river in order to allow the mill to be constructed. Fortunately for john in this process of deepening the river marshall had came up on one a discovery that would be historic to california and american history, Marshall was surprised when he realized that he had come up on a small fragment of gold the size of a small childs fingernail on

The California gold rush to many is a mesmerizing time in the history pertaining to westward migration in the United States. The gold rush played an important part in immigrant population because it the time phase most immigrants from all around entered into the united states. Immigrant groups, such like the Chinese, started to come to the United States after hearing the news of the discovery of gold in California, over the months more and more immigrants started to come by the thousands consequently laws had to be set in place to limit immigrants entering the united states and limit the egalitarianism of the new comers in order to make it fair for the miners who were true americans. John Sutter, “who had declared the land to be his land, which later gold would be discovered upon. Sutter did not want the news to spread he wanted to keep it private but the results were not in his favour, unfortunately some of his former worker had already spread in the news in excitement. John was in the process of building a lumber mill on the American River on January 24, 1848. He wanted to finish building his mill and claim it before stockpiles of gold hungry travelers would come to his land to look for gold. However, settler Sam Brannan made it his mission to make sure that the word spread, and he thought he had a good reason to do so. Sam brannan the former owner of a mill that makes