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Gold Rush

Gold Rush. What is the relationship between Americans and the land?. What was the gold rush?. History Channel Video America: Story of Us. What was the gold rush?. In 1848 gold was found in the ground at Sutter’s Mill

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Gold Rush

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  1. Gold Rush What is the relationship between Americans and the land?

  2. What was the gold rush? • History Channel Video • America: Story of Us

  3. What was the gold rush? • In 1848 gold was found in the ground at Sutter’s Mill • In two years over 100,000 miners travelled West to California in search of gold • Small towns sprung up out of nowhere • The gold rush attracted people from all over the United States including immigrants

  4. Vocabulary • Prospector: people who looked for gold • claim: a piece of land chosen by a miner on which he or she searched for gold • boomtown: a town that springs up in a deserted place so that miners will have some place to live • forty-niner: a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849 • gold fever: greed and the contagious excitement of the gold rush • ghost town:: Thinking about the effect that

  5. What impact did mining have on California’s physical environment? • The images in this group show mines, miners at work, and the tools they used. • They also illustrate the effect of the mines and the mining industry on California's landscape. • Rivers were dammed or became clogged with sediment, forests were logged to provide needed timber, and the land was torn up — all in pursuit of gold.

  6. Hydraulic Method of Mining

  7. Environmental Impact • The Gold Rush was positive for California in many ways... • ...however, it had a devastating effect on the state’s environment

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