california gold rush
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California Gold Rush. By: Zoe Dubin, Bria Bowman, Jaclyn Piccari, Becky Toll, Samantha Peck. John Sutter. Immigrant from Switzerland Born on February 15, 1803 Married Annette B’deld. Beginning. The mayor of California sells Sutter land Gold found by Swiss immigrant John Marshall - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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California Gold RushBy: Zoe Dubin, Bria Bowman, Jaclyn Piccari, Becky Toll, Samantha Peck
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John Sutter• Immigrant from Switzerland • Born on February 15, 1803• Married Annette B’deld
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Beginning The mayor of California sells Sutter land
Gold found by Swiss immigrant John Marshall
The California gold Rush begins in 1848!
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population 14,000 residents by
1848
100,000 residents by 1849
200,000 residents by 1852
California became a state in 1850
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Residents mostly unmarried men
Woman= 5% population
“Forty- niners”: people who traveled to California in 1849 to find gold
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African Americans African Americans also took part in the gold
rush
They were enslaved or free
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Chinese California gold rush brought in Europeans
and Asians
Asians=10% population in 1852(mainly labored as minors)
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Disasters Flood of immigrants was a disaster for the
Native Americans
Gold rush brought wealth to pacific coastal cities
Many strikes
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Down fall Ghost town- abandoned town due to lack of
economic activity
Headlines about the gold rush were sent out in country and oversea
People traveled upriver and overland to get to mines