What is the Gold Rush
By: Arda
11-30
What Was Important To California
California became a state because of the Gold Rush.There were so many people they admitted it that they can become a state.
How It Started
First, the Gold Rush started that two people named James Marshall and John Sutter found gold under the water in 1848 on January. The Gold Rush started at California Sutter's Mill. The Gold Rush lasted through 1848-1860. James Marshall and John Sutter tried to keep the gold a secret, but they couldn't. The person that found the secret is Sam Brannan. As soon someone hears it they tell it to everyone, so it's very hard to keep secrets back then.
How Many People Came
Second, in 1848 about 6,000 people came and in 1849 around 90,000 people came. People that called people that mined for gold Forty-Niners. Many of the people that came to California first earned about 10 times more money than daily work. Many of the people come from China, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. Around 14,000 people lived in California before the Gold Rush.
What Cool People Came to the Gold Rush
Then, California was a state when the Gold Rush was happening. All the people crossed land or water for the Gold Rush. In the Gold Rush around there was 12 million pounds of gold and the estimate is around 20 billion dollars worth. Some of the people in the Gold Rush actually digged for gold. When they were trying to find gold there were differences wheys to find gold one ways was digging and not a lot of people did that, but another way is panning. You put the pan under water and all of the water goes under the pan. Dust goes under the pan and the gold stays at top.
The Supplice That They Needed
Last, the people that sold the supplies and got more money than the people that got the money that “they mined the miners”. Most of the miners buy supplies and the supplies are shovel, pick. Other supplies that they need is food like coffee, bacon, sugar, beans, and lamp to see in the dark. A woman made pie and sold them to the miners and when she did that till 1848-1860 she got more than 11,000 dollars from selling pie. Most of the people that gave out supplies sold it for more money, but the miners were still willing to buy the supplies even though the supplies cost more.
The Gold Rush was very important to California. It was very important to California because in the Gold Rush, so many people came to California for gold. They admitted they california should be a state.
Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush
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