Personal Narrative: My Life In California

With the discovery of gold in 1848 the west saw an enormous surge of migrants coming to excavate gold. Excavating gold however comes with its own risks and challenges that the prospectors would have to face if they wanted to find gold, one of these challenges being that men left their families in search of gold. “Then the people commenced rushing up from San Francisco and other parts of California, in May, 1848: in the former village only five men were left to take care of the women and

Hello, reading over your discussion about growing up in Inglewood California brings to mind my African American co-worker who talks about living in Compton. She tells us often how growing up in that area you had to carry either a gun or a knife and be on guard whenever you go anywhere. She is a very dear friend of mine and she reminds me she is a changed person from the way she used to be. Her mother still lives in California but in a better neighborhood now but she is planning a trip to see her mother. My friend often tells me years ago she and I would have never gotten along because she had so much anger inside her. I am glad my friend did get out of that neighborhood alive and somehow found in her heart to not keep anger inside.

Stepping out of my first plane ride, I experience an epiphany of new culture, which seems to me as a whole new world. Buzzing around my ears are conversations in an unfamiliar language that intrigues me. It then struck me that after twenty hours of a seemingly perpetual plane ride that I finally arrived in The United States of America, a country full of new opportunities. It was this moment that I realized how diverse and big this world is. This is the story of my new life in America.

One factor during the Gilded Age that changed American business and labor practices was the abundance of supplies. The United States had all the raw materials it could ever ask for like: coal, oil, iron ore, copper, lead, and timber. Why was this important to the U.S? This kept the U.S. from having to purchase these things from foreign countries. The United States also had an abundance of labor supply between 1865 and 1900. This gave U.S. factories a steady supply of cheap labor, there was always more workers

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The rationale of the gold’s worth, individuals wished to maneuver from east to west to mine for gold. The Americans pushed the Indians far from the land, so that they may mine for gold. The Indians didn't wish to move, and that they fought back furiously to carry their own. Gold has had a profound result on North America. the primary recorded discovery transpired 250 years later in 1799, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The last nice gold rush happened in Klondike in 1897. because the company kicked off their journey to wash up the planet of it’s gold, officers were continuously questioned of wherever to let the companies dump all their waste and destroy the ecosystem. Plant Nutrition Technologies came up with an innovative solution; they used residual materials to counterpoint soil on farmland to make super

It is hard to find better jobs and that having gold was their only way to have their second chance. But it wasn’t a good luck day for the miners, they all wanted to dig because the gold was free to everyone and that no one could stop someone taking most of the gold. It felt like it was spiking up the rich type and that it was taking and finding a way to get the rich. The more people discovered about the gold the more people wanted to get the gold. So everybody including immigrants would come to California have made the population by 80,000 people. At first we could pick up gold but later we would have to use pans to get the gold out of the ground. It felt like the people after the gold had forgotten what was important to them and they were all filled with greed to fulfil what they want to be rich. As if the people had forgotten on what was the best thing for them was the gold and power to have a bigger or better business to them and get even more rich and that it could lead them down to a path of power and greed that they can forget all of the compassion and kindness that they had and that they lose what that person was. As someone can see that it did help California become a state in the U.S. But California didn’t become an actual state until the time of 1850. But when the gold was there it doesn’t mean that there was a lot of it there is

In 1849, a man named James W. Marshall found flakes of Gold in Sutter's Mill, California. After the discovery, word spread fast. It encouraged several people to move to California, by land or by sea, to find gold. Gold was valuable from the 1800s to today. It also encouraged immigrants like the Chinese to move to California to find gold. The Chinese and the American's, experience has multiple similarities and differences between them. Some are great and some are terrible. Americans traveled less distance to find gold while The Chinese traveled for more than a week or two and Chinese faced discrimination from the Americans. The Chinese and the Americans work hard to find gold and want to have more wealth than they have before, they also used various different ways to find gold, and some of them either succeed in finding gold while others did not find less gold or no gold at all.

Immigrant #4 (Jason): Now, it was hard to find gold. There were many people who wanted to go home if only they had the money. *writing on his journal as he is speaking to the

“One morning on January, 24, 1848, Marshall walked along the construction site to make sure everything was going according to plan.” Says the book The California Gold Rush By Peter Beniot. Marshall saw a few bright sparkles that caught his eye. Interested he scooped up he sparkles and took a closer glance. “He quickly returned to the where the men had begun working and announced that he had found gold. The workers did not believe him at first”

It’s December of 1850 and a fresh snow had drifted down upon the lush green hills of California. You kneel down and rub your hands together, ferociously at first but becoming gentler once you feel the friction heating up your palms. You glance down at your worn boots, torn denim pants, and exposed hands while pondering why you continued this madness of searching for gold. Maybe it was because you wanted to live life the easy way and bless your family with riches aplenty, or maybe it’s due to the fact that multiple of people have found happiness with their claims of gold. What ever the reason was, you knew that it was about to drive you to the breaking point. After this small thought you reach over and

So, the influence of the Gold Rush had to overcome a punishing voyage, unhappy living, dreadful working environments, and coming home successful or busted. The trials and tribulations the men encountered were forever engraved into the American history, also with the strength of President Polk 's words, about the announcement of gold in California, were the most influential call to action. His announcement had Farmers leaving their farms, dealers closed up their place of business, the military men deserted their command post, and everyone made way to California for big hopes of striking it rich. But during all the excitement

“Gold” headlines read in 1887 at start of the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory. “The great gold rushes of the nineteenth century are certainly among the most dramatic episodes of American western history” (Morse 2003). Compared to the other gold rushes of the nineteenth century, the Klondike Gold Rush remains a vibrant part of U.S. history luring various famous people to the last frontier such as Jack London and Wyatt Earp. The discovery of gold in 1896 along the Klondike River prompted prospectors from across the United States and Canada travel to the Yukon. Upon arrival, the prospectors remained woefully ignorant to the trail’s hostile

What do you think of when you hear, California Gold Rush? Lots of miners, doing nothing but panning for gold all day, even neglecting hygiene? Partially accurate, let’s start at the beginning. In 1848, James Marshall was hired by John Sutter to build a saw mill in Sacramento Valley. As he was digging, he discovered two gold nuggets and the news spread everywhere. As it went, the stories grew, some said he found an entire mountain of gold! Everyone, far and wide, all the way from Germany to Japan, decided that they were going to get there first. Thinking that in just a few hours of hard work, they would go from being Middle Class people, to the richest men and women anyone knew.

The time of the Gold Rush in our nation’s history was a time of bravery and uncertainty. One sunny day, a minuscule butcher shop in Trenton, New Jersey, was jam packed with a crowd. The people, along with a couple named Paul and Jenny, were pushing and shoving to try to get a look at a poster on the wall, which stated, “Gold found in California.” At the time, many people were dealing with financial hardship. Since Paul and Jenny were also in financial debt, after much discussion, they decided to go to California. They packed up their meager belongings and hastily left.