The Gold Rush

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• California Gold Rush the flocking of people to
  California in search of gold

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• 1.Forty-niners gold seekers who went to
  California

Named this because most left home in 1849
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At that time, gold fever was contagious
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• a. gold-mining was difficult
• and few became rich

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• b. most had no mining experience and
  came to prospect or search for gold

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• 2. Most popular method was
• placer mining put dirt in a
• pan and ran water over it
• to uncover gold pieces

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• 3. Mining camps sprung up
• wherever people gathered to
• search for gold

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• 4. Most miners were young,
• unmarried men

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• 5. Gold fever lured miners from
• around the world
• a. Chinese immigrants known as gam saan
  haak

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• 6. Californias economy changes overnight

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• a. California becomes a state after
• only 2 years because population
• is so large