https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1 By: Bianca and Cece. en-us 2019-01-15 15:40:19 UTC 2023-01-24 23:18:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/219978495/18b23af8ae175ed50ce24bad35336b50/gettyimages_472288771_1024x1024.jpg biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/320865426 The people that took part in the Gold Rush were called 49ers. 

]]> 2019-01-15 16:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/320865426 ceciliabrubaker2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321255133 On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, who is a carpenter from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. The news obviously spread fast and lots of people flocked to California to mine for gold.  Many people went to California and they started to dig anywhere and they did not care where they dug or how much they were tearing up the  ground. This happened because everyone was half crazed with greed. Many people poured into the mines. Whenever the gold flow slowed down, people started to work for other people or go back home.]]> 2019-01-16 15:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321255133 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321261730 The Gold Rush took place in 1849-1855. the first piece of gold was found in 1848 though. ]]> 2019-01-16 15:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321261730 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321266718 2019-01-16 15:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321266718 ceciliabrubaker2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321733485 The gold rush happened because of greed and because people wanted to rich. Some of them got even poorer though because they left their farms and their work and abandoned everything. ]]> 2019-01-17 15:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321733485 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321736935 It took place in California. ]]> 2019-01-17 15:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321736935 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321743623 2019-01-17 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321743623 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321744699 The gold rush began because someone found a piece of gold and then the word got out. People thought about how much better their life could be if they found gold so they rushed to California to become miners.  ]]> 2019-01-17 15:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/321744699 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322168009 2019-01-18 15:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322168009 ceciliabrubaker2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322170932 It affected the U.S. expansion because of many people moving to the west to mine gold and then they kind of made the west their home if they brought their families. People also were not as afraid to move into the great unknown because they knew what was out there and they would get tired and stay somewhere instead of going back. Because the trip was hard.]]> 2019-01-18 15:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322170932 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322174600 2019-01-18 15:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322174600 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322177015 2019-01-18 15:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322177015 biancatilghman2025 https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322177702 2019-01-18 15:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/biancatilghman2025/kw45fhlt75v1/wish/322177702