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i learned that they go to columbia to get some gold becase the man  find somethgold

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1.gold was first in california by james marshall at stutter mill .

2.the people that rush they called the 49ers

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did they go west what did they trade

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1 hat I learned was over 300,000 people rushed to the california gold rush.
2 there were only 14,000 non-native americans

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1.I learned that they sometimes they shaked  the gold pans.
2.I also learned how they needed suplies such as beds,food and clothes.
3.I learned that some minners used rockers or cradles to get their  gold faster......

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1. how they got the gold
2. who first descovered it .
3.where it was first was descovered it

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i learned how the gold was discover by james marshall and how they digged it up gold

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1.I learned that people was going to california for gold

2. over 300,00 people rushed to california to get rich fast

3.whenever gold was discovered in a new place miners would move in and make a mining camp

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i wounder how did they get there houses stayed up.

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i learned that they were digging to find the gold and that people went to the house at 1896 and 1897and half of the people  were not indan s and

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i learned about that gold was first discovered in california by James Marshall and what was the ghost town and how they houses looked

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This is a picture of Bodie, California. A real life ghost town!

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i learned about california that was abandoned.
and all the gold be gone

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i learned that they found gold in california.i also  learned that they founed gold

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i learned about how they  digged for gold.   how they pann and used it. some minnersused rokes to digg for gold

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i learned about the panning and how they used the panning and how john shutter told James Marshall to keep it a secret so they did for a little while

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I like how they told us who discoverd gold
and how they made the nfl team 49rs  and  i like how they told about panning

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Westward Expansion

History >> Westward Expansion
The California Gold Rush took place between 1848 and 1855. During this time gold was discovered in California. Over 300,000 people rushed to California to find gold and "strike it rich".

Gold Is Found in California

Gold was first discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill near the city of Coloma. James was building a sawmill for John Sutter when he found shiny flakes of gold in the river. He told John Sutter about the discovery and they tried to keep it secret. However, soon word got out and prospectors were rushing to California to find gold.

Sutter's Mill
from the California Department of
Parks and Recreation

The Forty-niners
Before the gold rush, there were only around 14,000 non-Native Americans living in California. This soon changed. Around 6,000 people arrived in 1848 and in 1849 around 90,000 people arrived to hunt for gold. These people were called the Forty-niners. They came from all around the world. Some were Americans, but many came from places like China, Mexico, Europe, and Australia.

Digging for Gold

Many of the first prospectors did make a lot of money. They often made ten times in a day what they could working a normal job. The original miners would pan for gold. Later, more complex methods were used to allow multiple miners to work together and search larger amounts of gravel for gold.

What is "panning for gold"?

One method miners used to separate gold from dirt and gravel was called panning. When panning for gold, miners put gravel and water into a pan and then shook the pan back and forth. Because gold is heavy it will eventually work its way to the bottom of the pan. After shaking the pan for a while, the gold will be on the bottom of the pan and the worthless material will be at the top. Then the miner can extract the gold and set it aside.

Panning on the Mokelumne
from Harper's Weekly

Supplies
All these thousands of miners needed supplies. Typical supplies for a miner included a mining pan, a shovel, and a pick for mining. They also needed food and living supplies such as coffee, bacon, sugar, beans, flour, bedding, a tent, lamp, and a kettle.

The store and business owners who sold supplies to the miners often became wealthier than the miners. They were able to sell items at very high prices and the miners were willing to pay.

Boomtowns

Whenever gold was discovered in a new place, miners would move in and make a mining camp. Sometimes these camps would rapidly grow into towns called boomtowns. The cities of San Francisco and Columbia are two examples of boomtowns during the gold rush.

Ghost Towns

A lot of boomtowns eventually turned into abandoned ghost towns. When the gold ran out in an area, the miners would leave to find the next gold strike. The businesses would leave too and soon the town would be empty and abandoned. One example of a gold rush ghost town is Bodie, California. Today it is a popular tourist attraction.

Interesting Facts about the Gold Rush

San Francisco was a small town of around 1,000 people when gold was discovered. A few years later it had over 30,000 residents.

California was admitted as the 31st state of the United States in 1850 during the gold rush.

Sometimes groups of miners used "rockers" or "cradles" to mine. They could mine a lot more gravel and dirt this way than with just a pan.

There have been other gold rushes in the United States including the Pike's Peak gold rush in Colorado and the Klondike gold rush in Alaska.

Historians estimate that around 12 million ounces of gold was mined during the gold rush. That would be worth around $20 billion using 2012 prices.

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Kids learn about the California Gold Rush from the Old West. Thousands of people move to the west to search for gold and strike it rich.