The California Gold Rush by Zach Simmons https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu This Padlet is about the 1848-1855 California Gold rush en-us 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC 2025-09-27 18:29:00 UTC hello@padlet.com http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/12635708-gold-bars-pyramid-isolated.jpg Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413190 The California Gold rush

doubled the worlds supply in gold.

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413190 Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413191 New movers would get together and build

very quick towns called Boomtowns almost

overnight

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413191 Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413192 By the end of 1848, they had taken six

million dollars in gold from the

American River

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413192 Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413193 The rush was such a big part of

California History, They named

a Football Team after it

(San Francisco 49ers)

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413193 Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413195 1849 was the most popular year for the rush

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413195 Fact whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413196 Half of the miners moved using the sea half

using the trails through land.

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413196 Summary whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413198 More than 80,000 people came to California in 1849 because

James Marshall found gold in Coloma, California. Many

people came to California in search of gold and riches.

The name for these people

were called forty-niners. very few women mined and all

the men together without police could be dangerous,

robberies and murder had no consequence forcing vigilantes

(citizens) to volunteer as police and judges.etc

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]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413199 Gold Bars whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413200 Gold was the object. If you struck the jackpot you were rich.

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413200 A Colony Digging  whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413201 Many of these people were called Gold seekers or 49ers.

]]> 2015-03-06 16:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413201 People Panning For Gold whipking123 https://padlet.com/whipking123/oev5oomf16zu/wish/52413203 Jobs were hard to find back then and panning gold was a good but hard job back then

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