California gold rush by ryan mclane https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9 by Ryan and Griffin en-us 2017-06-06 14:19:28 UTC 2025-04-04 17:01:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png 4. Many different countries came to California to find gold and strike it rich ryan_d_mclane1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175399175
"German immigrant Levi Strauss, for example, sold so many work pants to gold diggers that his name became the generic term for jeans" (Levis).

"White discrimination, embodied most clearly in heavy taxes on foreign miners, kept most Chinese, Latin American, and African American prospectors out of the choice diggings"(Johnson).]]> 2017-06-06 14:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175399175 1. People started killing each other because they wanted all of the gold. griffin_mayo1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175400388 People began to get gold fever which is when the person that has it wants all of the gold in California, and will do anything to get it. Even killing other people.
("https://yesteryearsnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/gold-rush-justice.gif?w=450"). ]]> 2017-06-06 14:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175400388 5. People that went to California for the gold rush were called 49'ers ryan_d_mclane1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175400626 "when people went to California in 1849 they got the name 49ers" (Lewis)]]> 2017-06-06 14:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175400626 2. Gold was actually first found by Americans in Virginia in 1782. griffin_mayo1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175569026
 The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782.

("Gold Mining In The United States").     ]]> 2017-06-07 14:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175569026 3. "Fifty years before Sutter's Mill, the first gold rush in American history got underway after a 17 pound nugget was found in Cabarrus country" (haikudeck.com). griffin_mayo1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175569802 2017-06-07 14:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175569802 6. 49'ers went to California on boat and on hoarse and carriage ryan_d_mclane1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175570914 "many of the people that went to California for the gold rush died trying to get there" (Johnson).]]> 2017-06-07 14:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175570914 sourses ryan_d_mclane1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175738661 Johnson, Benjamin H. "Gold Rush, California." Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 3rd ed., vol. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003, pp. 12-14. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3401801743/UHIC?u=nysl_ro_hflms&xid=af65d1a5. Accessed 8 June 2017.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=7ER1X%2Ben&id=946A2C48CA34239CF850B6B52981C0A2FBD80595&thid=OIP.7ER1X-enO3NuBdJcMRWc4gEsDh&q=facts+about+the+california+gold+rush&simid=608043211729208444&selectedindex=14&mode=overlay&first=1]]> 2017-06-08 14:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175738661 The California gold rush griffin_mayo1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175741723 Ryan and Griffin  ]]> 2017-06-08 14:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175741723 The California gold rush was a fight for money in the new state, California. The start to it was when John Sutter found a huge gold nugget sticking out of the ground. The news spread quickly and states and countries from around the world flocked to California hoping to strike it rich. griffin_mayo1 https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175742221 2017-06-08 14:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ryan_d_mclane1/774ptme50ih9/wish/175742221