Rhyolite History

An outburst in growth of America’s big city population, places of 100,000 people or more jumped from about 6 million to 14 million between 1880 and 1900, cities had become a world of newcomers (551). America evolved into a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial worker and, the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century, continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country's transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared and as capitalists dominated the economy, dramatic social, political, and economic

With all these travelers from the east and different country made California a “melting pot” of different people and culture. When news that California that had gold began to spread outside of the United State it first hit Mexico and Hawaii lead to the first wave of immigrants with the purpose of mining. Then, news the quickly across the world from South America to Europe and from Australian to Asian, the impact was so big that the text said, “Irish immigration to the United States, already at 100,000 a year in 1847, more than double to 220,000 by 1851” (Gillon, 297). With all these people mining towns would quickly pop up across California, and these towns with every race you could think such as Black, French, Irish, Chinese, Mexican, and etc. The towns were constantly busy with people moving to and from mine and rivers. With a day or a week of work could make you a nice amount of profit, you could entertain yourself for a while before you had to go back to mining with bars, gambling parlors, and whore house. Prostitutes made good money because in text said that, “ One prostitute in California Boasted of making more than $50000in a year.” (Gillon, 297). I could imagine myself being there if I made it there.

The California Gold Rush one of the biggest events in the U.S History. The Gold Rush was when gold was found by James .W. Marshall in 1848 in San Francisco, California. When this happened, emotions sparked in San Francisco (main site for the Gold Rush). The word spread so quickly that people from all around the Unites States flooded into San Francisco and causing overpopulation(“California Gold Rush”). In 6 years during the Gold Rush, the population increased by almost 36,000 residents(“California Gold Rush”). Overpopulation set in, and it was a major problem. This problem increased murders, fires, robberies and overall just many crimes(“The California Gold Rush”). More people means more houses being taken, and a

The United States grew at a dramatic rate between the years 1880 and 1900, within the cities. U.S. cities grew by approximately 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many historians claim that most of the population growth was due to the expansion of industry. It is also believed that the majority of the population explosion was immigrants that were arriving from all over the world. A good amount of people from the rural areas of America also moved to the cities during this period in the search of work. Between 1880 and 1890, it is suggested that almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration.

Expansion and the development of the United States can be broken down into many significant historical factors. Two of them, The Gold Rush and The Dust Bowl are good examples. What is known to be the most famous geological event in U.S. history may well be the California Gold Rush, which began in 1849 after gold was discovered the year before at Sutter’s mill. Over 300,000 people traveled from far and wide to be a part of the fortune they seek. With this eruption of travel, the means of transportation were improved. For the nation, the glow generated by its gold rush made California a cynosure and produced a quick political reward. (Emmons & Udall, 2003, p. 125) Improvements as well as profits from hydraulic mining were enormous and the states economy boomed. The Dust Bowl brought on some big changes in the expansion and development of the United States. As the droughts of the early 1930’s deepened, the farmers kept plowing and planting and nothing would grow, the ground cover that held the soil was gone. The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s lasted about a decade and the movement of people was profound. Nearly 500,000 American people migrated

Before the Gold Rush of 1849, California was a sparsely populated, unimportant territory of the United States mostly inhabited by the people of Mexico. However, that all changed when on January 24, 1848; carpenter and small time sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River that would forever change the history of California and America1. Not only did the Gold Rush lead to California’s admittance into the Union in 1850, it also rekindled the idea of the American Dream. Hundred’s of thousands of people poured into the state by the lure of quick and infinite riches. As a result of the Gold Rush, California

Most eighteenth century Americans lived in self-maintaining rural areas. The Industrial Revolution saw the advancement of large urban hubs, such as Boston and New York City, and impelled an enormous migration of workers. “From the beginning, cities formed part of the western frontier. Western cities like Cincinnati and St. Louis that stood at the crossroads of inter-regional trade experienced

During this time America saw some of its most rapid increase of immigration and population, not to mention westward expansion. Between 1880 and 1900 many cities grew in the hundreds of thousands, making work, shelter, and life a little more competitive. Much of this was

If you had the opportunity to get rich from gold, would you? Would you be willing to leave everything you have behind to move thousands of miles across the country just for gold? In 1859, the answer for many people was yes. Word of gold found throughout Colorado spread across the country and launched the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush or today known as the Colorado Gold Rush. There are several significant events in Colorado history that have had a huge impact on the state we know today. The Colorado Gold Rush, in 1859, was the most significant event in Colorado History for several reasons; the rush attracted thousands of people to our state, initiated the mining of other resources, succored farming and ranching throughout the state and helped to boost the economy of the towns here in Colorado. The gold rush had a massive impact on several aspects of Colorado during the time and these aspects continue to be apart of Colorado still today.

Towns and cities sprang from lands where railroads were built and those that were far from railroads became ghost towns

In the 1860’s Central and Northeastern America housed a majority of the U.S population. The Northeastern part of the U.S, was Home to many big cities such as New York and Philadelphia, both with a population greater than 500,000. This made the Northeastern part of the U.S. the economical stronghold of America during

The North had the largest cities out of all regions and was likely the most technologically advanced. The North had roads, canals, and railroads that connected the region into a giant web of connections. Many large cities were located here such as the largest city in the United States, New York City, or NYC. Many European immigrants lived in the North and worked in the factories located there. Although the region was prosperous and “advanced”, the living conditions weren’t the greatest for the common, blue-collar worker. Since the factories did not pay much, the average joe couldn’t afford the nicest of living spaces. This forced families to move into tenements that had horrid living conditions. Sanitation was nonexistent, disease was common, and families would often live with other families. The south was almost directly opposite. While there were big cities in the South, a majority of the population would live in rural areas. In fact, only one-tenth of the population in the South lived in urban areas. People commonly lived in plantation homes and owned large plots of land, such as plantations. There were almost as many black slaves in the South as there were whites, 4 million blacks, and 5.5 million whites. Most people worked on farms and the ideal labor was slavery, a controversial issue at the time. The west was a little odd. In the 1840s, the West was sparsely populated. Most occupants were Native Americans who have been in the West for 100’s of years. For the people living there, mining, fishing, and “dry farming”, were common occupations. Since the weather was unpredictable, settlers resorted to a technique called “dry farming.”The gold rush was one of the biggest events in the west, causing thousands of people in the East to start their own quest for

In the early 1800s a massive influx of immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Great Britain poured into the US. These immigrants stayed near where they docked -- New England. They also mainly became factory workers. The north's population was greatly increasing

The California Gold Rush After the United States had become an independent nation, mostly everybody lived on the east coast. There was little thought of traveling west. As the 1800s started to come along, the thought of traveling west occurred to the colonists. The Louisiana Purchase expanded the country, and new and improved forms of transportation helped make the transportation of goods and people easier to the west coast.

At this time in the US, citizens were looking forward to a pattern of sustained economic growth. While most of this was due to the large weight of slave labor-dependent cotton production and cotton exports of the Southern states, the economies of the Northeast, with industry, and of the Middle West, with food production, also paid tribute to this economic growth by means of inter-regional trade. While the majority of industry was situated in the Northeast, there was a growing trend of movement to the West; while in 1840 the Northeast had 43% of the population, with the West Central having only 2%, that number had grown to 7% in 1860, and 12% in 1880. There was also a massive gold rush in California, triggered on January 24, 1848 by random