How The 10 Days That Changed The History Of The United States Chapter Summaries

Henos Yonas 1ST period
10 Days that changed the world is an exceptional book that brings to light various events in history that have affected the outcome of this great nation as a whole and also the world in itself. I will be introducing chapters 2, 3 and 4 and letting people know how they impacted my view on America. I chose chapter two because Shays Rebellion, one of the events that you can’t leave out, brought light to an inevitable fact that the Articles of the Confederation did not work and could not sustain us as people. I chose chapter three because the Gold Rush, it led to very unlikely things. People of every race, creed and color lived together for one common purpose one that was not promised but hoped for, gold. I chose Chapter

The rebellion showed the weakness of the economy of the federal government because there were high taxes in every state, different currency and most importantly the federal government had no steadily income. All the wealth produced came from the states, if the federal government has no money then there is nothing that they can do to fulfill their purpose, to help the American people. During this time the social status and gap between the rich and the poor was bust wide open. The wealthy merchants and politicians taxed the poor farm owners and shopkeepers until they had no money left then taxed them so more. The rich looked down at the poor and this divide was the worst it’s ever

At the time no one believed there was gold in California. On the 28th later that week Marshall rode into to town and had the metal tested at it turned out to be gold. Starting from that moment the word that gold had been discovered in this new frontier known as California started a world-wide craze. People traveled from the farthest of places to seeking fame and fortune in the new world. From 1848 to 1856 around $456 million dollars in gold had been discovered in California. The scenery described by the author made you wish that you were there so that you could get some for yourself. Also the accounts of the different races living together in peace was astonishing, something that you wouldn’t see until the end of the next century. This was truly something you could not duplicate or make up on your own. During the time of the gold rush as expected as people began to come, the population would increase and towns would be built. Many of the major cities in California that still exists today started of being gold mine towns were the labor would settle after a hard day out in the fields searching for their illustrious treasure. These were such cities as California capital Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland. The gold rush would lead to California eventually becoming a state more immigrants came to America and settled in different places not just on