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The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush. 1849. The Gold Rush. In 1843 the ‘great migration’ to the West began. Five years later a carpenter found gold flakes in a stream in California. He and the owner tried to keep it secret but word spread and by 1849 more than fifty thousand people came to find gold.

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The Gold Rush

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  1. The Gold Rush 1849

  2. The Gold Rush • In 1843 the ‘great migration’ to the West began. • Five years later a carpenter found gold flakes in a stream in California. • He and the owner tried to keep it secret but word spread and by 1849 more than fifty thousand people came to find gold.

  3. The Gold Rush • Many of the gold seekers came to California by sea. • Others came overland, traveling on the Oregon Trail or the Santa Fe Trail and then pushing westward through California’s Sierra Nevada Mt range.

  4. The Gold Rush • As people rushed to a new area to look for gold, they built new communities, called Boomtowns, almost overnight.

  5. The Gold Rush • Mining towns had no police or prisons, so lawbreakers posed a real threat to business owners and miners. One miner wrote, ‘’ROBBERIES AND MURDERS WERE OF DAILY OCCURANCE.ORGANIZED BANDS OF THIEVES EXSISTED IN THE TOWNS AND MOUNTAINS.’’

  6. The Gold Rush • Zachary Taylor, the Mexican war hero is now president ,he pushed the people to apply for statehood.

  7. The Gold Rush • California applied to congress for statehood in march 1850 because their constitution banned slavery.

  8. The Gold Rush • Very few females lived in the mining camps, which were populated by men from different racial backgrounds and ways of life.

  9. The Gold Rush • Lawlessness became the way of life in gold rush villages. • Committees were formed and people had to take the law into their own hands.

  10. The Gold Rush • The gold rush more than doubled the world supply of gold for all their effort, however, very few of the forty-niners achieved lasting wealth.

  11. The Gold Rush California’s economy shot way up after the Gold Rush. Even though the gold rush ended after a few years the money still stayed.

  12. The Gold Rush • As gold rushers poured west between 1849 and 1852 the California Trail became rife with shortcuts. • Most of them were just trouble though. • In 1858 the federal government constructed a legit shortcut between South Pass and Fort Hall called Lander Road

  13. CREDITS Created by: Dionte Schoensee & Jayme Garcia Pictures by: Ms. Patti 2nd Period American History is the best EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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