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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. 1849. SUTTER’S MILL. A Swiss Army General Becomes a Mexican Citizen Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA Had 18,000 head of cattle He helped many settlers by giving them work when they arrived. Jan. 1848 Gold is discovered. Sutter’s Mill. SAN FRANCISCO.

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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

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  1. CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 1849

  2. SUTTER’S MILL • A Swiss Army General • Becomes a Mexican Citizen • Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA • Had 18,000 head of cattle • He helped many settlers by giving them work when they arrived. • Jan. 1848 Gold is discovered.

  3. Sutter’s Mill

  4. SAN FRANCISCO • Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 residents left to chase gold. • The city became a temporary ghost town.

  5. California Gold . . . free for the taking! • The San Francisco area was swarmed with people from all over the world.

  6. GOLD FEVER • People all over the world dropped what they were doing to go to California. • 30,000 go by land • 25,000 by sea

  7. Western migration

  8. America makes the west their own

  9. California hits the mother load • When a Thousand settlers set out for Oregon by wagon in 1843, it was called-like other westward movements before it- the great migration.

  10. HOW LONG THE GOLD RUSH LASTED. • How many people got rich? Very few • What happened to the Boomtowns? They became ghost towns. • What lasting effect did the Gold Rush Have? California's population grew and became a state in 1850.

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