choose this place because I wanted to learn about the Gold Rush. A gold rush happens when lots of people race off no matter where they are located to where the gold has been discovered. (What was the Gold Rush? By Joan Holub) The first gold rush in the United States was in North Caroline in 1799. (What was the Gold Rush? By Joan Holub) A twelve year old boy found a seventeen pound gold nugget in a creek and sold it for $3.50, but it was worth over $350.000. (What was the Gold Rush? By Joan Holub) People left jobs, families, and their homes for the Gold Rush and I wanted to Why, When, Where, and How?
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, located near Nevada City, California is worth building the Miner’s Mountain monument because I researched …show more content…
It all started from a Native American who sold his land to miners who found gold in a lake. The Native Americans weren’t allowed to own land so anyone could just come along and start mining the gold because this weren’t private land that the miners owned. Many people came to mine at the Gold Camps and the Gold Camps became overcrowded and full. Thieves and bandits took advantage of the miners. Thieves and bandits would sneak into camps and steal gold and mining claims. Caucasian weren’t the only race mining for gold some black slaves were forced to mine for gold for their …show more content…
(What was the Gold Rush? By Joan Holub) The specific details regarding relevant events and people were the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall who worked on John Sutter’s Sawmill. John Sutter settled in California with a dreams to sell lumber for the building in California. After James W. Marshall found the gold just days before the Mexican-American War were ending. John Sutter wanted to keep the discovery quiet, but it was hard to do because too many workers knew about the gold discovery. When Sam Brannan learned about discovery of gold he did what any writer would do he wrote about the gold and capitalized on the Gold Rush buy selling mining equipment.
The Gold Rush showed another importance to us because during this time it was the ending of the Mexican American War. People have been racists and anti-foreign attacks against Chinese, Latin Americans, and even Native Americans were happening during the Gold Rush period. The Mexican American War and the Gold Rush affected the trade route between America and Asia. When the Mexican-American War happened, California was taken over by Mexicans. So America fought back to reclaim their land which then caused the Mexican American