VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 20:10:20 11/07/02 Thu
Author: Casiopia
Subject: The California Gold Rush

The Cali Gold Rush

*Gold Rush
-James Marshall found traces of gold in the foothills of Sierra Nevadas
-word got out and there was a mad rush to Cali
-population jumped dramaticly

*Fourty-niners
-migrants known as fourty-niners
-they gave up everything to search for gold
-they were mostly men

*Chinese migrants
-mostly poor peasants
-many young and adventrous
-wanted to be rich and go back to China
-gold rush left cali in needed of laborers

*Indian Slavery
-natives population went down because people were going and killing them
-state law allowed orphaned indians to be put into indentured labor

*Out Come of GOld Rush
-few got rich
-few 49 niners even found gold
-many went home
-some stayed and Cali had a population booom
-Cali had diversed population caused racial tensions
-tenssion grew to create a more stable government
-put pressure on U.S. to resolve the territory debate

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.