The sun is shining and maybe there is even a breeze. Mmm feels nice. You are panning for gold in California but aren’t having any luck finding any. It is hard work mining for gold and you were hoping for hands full of it that you can spot easily and just pick up. But that is not what it was like during the California gold rush.
THE GOLD RUSH BEGINS!
The gold rush started in 1848. The first hand full of gold was found at sutter's mill on January 24. It all started when the word spread to San Francisco and soon word was all over the world! When the California gold rush first started as you now know it first spread to San Francisco, but you may not know that in San Francisco there was a newspaper about the gold rush. It had all the information you needed like where the California gold rush was, what materials you needed to find gold, and all the information on ways to get there. Soon all the men in San Francisco fled to California for gold.
THEY ALL CAME FOR GOLD
You could come from China or maybe Germany or any ware in between. They could've come from anywhere around the world and they probably came to California. Most of the first people who came to California found lots of gold and eventually got rich, but the rest of them were not so lucky. Most of them came to find gold but were disappointed to find out that there was no more gold, it had all been taken.
Soon the population of San Francisco went up to 25,000 people. The California gold rush whas a big impact on California because it eventually got so many people it could and did become a state. Which impacts us still today.
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