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Gold Rush Ivan Lemus Colis Table of contents Introduction ............................................................................... pg 2 Chapter one, What was the Gold Rush? ................................ pg 3

Chapter two, What happened in the Gold Rush ? ................ pg 4

Chapter three, How they cleaned the Gold ........................... pg 6

Chapter four, Who got the most Gold ? ................................. pg 8

Conclusion .................................................................................. pg 10




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Introduction My story is about the California Gold Rush with all my four chapters and with all the information I gathered I'll be shure you'll be convinced that you will be wondering how hard was it to find all that Gold and digging all that gold even cleaning it.

Most of the chapters are all about the Gold. And by the way there might be some information that you didn't now that happened in the Gold Rush.

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What was the Gold Rush Chapter 1

The Gold Rush started in 1849 January 24 and ended in 1855. The Gold was found by James W. Marshal at sutter's mill in Coloma, California. The Gold Rush came up on the news and 300,000 people went to California for the Gold. The sudden influx of immigration and Gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy.

The California Gold Rush initiated the California Genocide, it had 100,000 Native Californians dying between 1849 and 1868. When it started to end California had gone from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the nominee for the Republican Party.

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The Gold Rush effects were substantial. Whole indigenous society were attacked and pushed off their lands by the Gold seekers, called ''forty niners''.  

Location: Sierra, Nevada and Northern, California Goldfields .

Outcome: California becomes a U.S. state California Genocide.

A miner panning for gold in the river

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What happened in the Gold Rush Chapter 2

James W. Marshal found a yellow shiny rock dungeon in the dirt. It was gold! Suddenly he started to tell everyone. People from all over America. Most people were native Californians. People died digging and traveling to California because they only had wagons. It took long for the minors to find gold because the gold was as little as a small rock Actual size For most of the people it was difficult because it took about a week to find at least 3 pieces of gold. About 100,000 people died in the Gold Rush. Somehow all of the ways that they took were dangerous. Even the ships caring the forty-niners were sinking.

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The people who were seeking the gold they traveled by wagon which was a better way to travel they were often attacks from the Native Americans. Wen the Indians attacked it was very rare for them because it was their only threat.

Even the women came to California to make some money. In 1835 the Americans in Texas had a war against Mexico. 10 years later, Texas became the 28th state of America. Wen the war ended between United States and Mexico in 1846, Americans in California also revolted.  

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How they cleaned the Gold Chapter 3

The miners used pans to cleaned the gold.

They have to shake the pans to find the gold but most things in the pans were dirt. How i said in the previous chapter people only found 30 dollars a month but later on the years they fund 300 dollars a day. By the year 1869 railroads were built across the country from California to the eastern United States. Most of the Gold was found in Gila River.

With the water from the River they cleaned the Gold and exchange it for money. The Gold can't be accepted if it's not cleaned. Gold was worth about 1,000-5,000. The pans were the fastest way to clean the Gold some miners had to used hands to clean 8

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the gold which was the longest way to clean the gold the fastest is the machine that they used to clean the gold.  

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Who got the most gold ? chapter 4

first of all the miners did not get the most gold because they only found three pieces of gold a week so the miners didn't find much gold. So many people took a year to get thear because they dint have cars they only had wagons. They've olso came late to California so they dint get much Gold.

People wear in such a rush to get the gold and left all of their belongings and left to get the gold.

By the time the miners got there they didn't get any gold. The only people that got gold were the ones who hade the iron tools the ones that didn't have tools they got to borrow stone tools and they were mining stone so it will break not easy but they broke and the iron lasted for the rest of the gold 10

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Rush. The ones that got most gold were the ones that soled the pickax and the ones that made the inventions to clean the gold. The prospectors got the most money.  

This is wear the Gold Rush was located

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Conclusion Visit ---->

I hope you really liked my book i put a lot of effort on this book i used this website wikipedia.com , kidrex.org and ducksters.com those wear the websites i used to fined information and clues for the California Gold Rush.

Something that i didn't mention in the story is that the miners only found 12 ounces of gold.

Using 2012 pieces will make 20 billion dollars. For entertainment the forty niners could and ,enjoy singing and making some music. They also had a bowling alley so they can go bowling, they also had cards and pool. The most famous song was "ho! Susanna".

And there's a thing that i didn't mention in the book is that the woman that were mining for gold got more gold than men, they at least got 100 dollars a day then moved up to 300 dollars a day.  12

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Did you now that most of the travelers left on boat and some went on wagon but when the gold rush started to end they built railroads and that was faster Travel for the other travelers that were about to come or some that we are few miles away. Did you now that the football team 49ers were named because they found gold on 1849.â&#x20AC;Š

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