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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. 1849. Sutter’s Mill. A Swiss army general. Becomes a Mexican citizen. Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA. Had 18,000 head. SUTTER’S MILL. GOLD FEVER. All over the world people dropped what they were doing to go to California. 30,000.
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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 1849
Sutter’s Mill A Swiss army general. Becomes a Mexican citizen. Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA. Had 18,000 head
GOLD FEVER All over the world people dropped what they were doing to go to California. 30,000
Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 resident left to chase gold. The city became a temporary ghost town SAN FRANCISCO
The San Francisco area was swarmed with people from all over the world. California Gold… free for the taking!
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