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A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted form the area

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Was sparked by the discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley

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Was a turning point in global history.

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An Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos was the first person in the world to find pure gold.

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Gold pans, picks and sholves were used to pan for surface gold.​

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Some miners used a gold cradle to search for surface gold.​

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A puddling tub was used to search for surface gold in clay.

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Several miners could use a sluice at once to search for surface gold.

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The work was hard, prices were high, and living conditions

were primitive.

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There was a huge increase of population

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Immigrants from China experienced intense discrimination.

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The first railroad line constructed connected

the existing US railroad network with the Pacific

Coast.

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Connecting the two American coasts made the economic export of Western resources to Eastern markets easier than ever before.

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This happened because of the economical and political trouble in China and the Gold Rush, that was intented for them to work hard, and return to their country as wealthy people.

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They worked in the California Gold Rush and the Central Pacific Railroad.

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They were being  viewed  not  only  as  inferior  and

undesirable  population,  but  also  as  an

actual threat to American culture,

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there were scattered threats against and beatings of Chinese men in Cheyenne

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The war started when Lincoln first introduced the confederate States of America that was form of seven southern states that he got to secede.

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This was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on America, 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed.

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The start of the civil war was mostly started because of disagreement of slavery.

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State and local governments to limit the voting abilities of Black people.

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Eliminate civil rights progress for Black

people was the main objective.

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The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups. Black Americans have typically been the Klan’s primary target

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The start of this awful period in time was the murder of Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg, Shot dead in Bosnian.

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The United States emerged as a world power, and new technology made warfare deadlier than ever before.

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Almost 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds or disease during World War I.

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The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.