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    The California Gold Rush was a very tough time for many cultures. The gold searching included many people like, Native Americans, gangs, and Foreigners. Native Americans were the first victims, Foreigners were treated to contempt, and many gangs stole until they were caught and forcibly stopped. There were many challenges individuals faced such as harsh punishments for claiming a miner’s gold, there wasn’t any police or guards to protect the gold, and many individuals who dug for gold struggled from

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    Introduction Suddenly the population grew, gold fever was starting. everyone came to creeks, streams, and rivers to pan for gold. They left their normal lives to become rich. They would camp for days, weeks, or even months in tents and they would bring very little supplies. They would mine until they were successful with finding gold. This was the California Gold Rush. Let’s see how it all began and grew. The Start James Marshall was working in a saw mill and he saw something shining in the water

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    This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. One key source chosen to support this investigation is a book from the United States Department of the Interior. This is relevant because it provides access to information compiled from the United States government’s extensive database of information regarding conflict in the Black Hills. The other significant source is a firsthand account from a Cheyenne

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    Gold Rush Research Paper

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    phones, due to research gold used to play a significant historical role in Australia, which the first gold rush occurred in 1851 after the mineral was discovered in Bathurst, New South Wales. After the Bathurst gold rush, it was followed by recent discoveries in Victoria. During the formation of earth molten iron sank to its centre which caused it to make the core. This took the mineral with vast majority to become one of the earth’s precious metals, which include metals such as gold and platinum, which

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    were the ones who were in the home taking care of the children, cooking, and cleaning. When the Gold Rush occurred in 1849, not only was society changing, but the roles of both men and women were rapidly changing as well. The effects of gender role determined the way that society was running. When this sudden change of gender role started to change, society started to run much

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    12-9 The 2,200 mile trek to the Gold Rush in 1849 took a long time for them to get to California. They could not replenish their resources and supplies on the journey. It started of with the Gold Rush in North Carolina in 1799 and then the Georgia Gold Rush happen in 1828. Gold at the time was the most valuable gem in the world, once people found gold they will make a great quality of money. Some challenges people faced when traveling to the California Gold Rush were the long journey, the lack of

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    The Klondike Gold Rush took place in 1896-1899 in a tributary of the Klondike River in the Yukon territory of Canada. It took about a year for the news of the gold to reach North America but quickly a stampede of people began their journeys to what they hoped would lead to riches. 100,000 people set out for gold but only about 30,000 people made it to the destination that they were headed for. Many died as well as people who turned back and journeyed home. There was murder, suicides, diseases, malnutrition

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    Prior to the Gold Rush of 1849, California was a meagerly populated, an irrelevant area of the United States for the most part possessed by the general population of Mexico. In any case, that all changed when on January 24, 1848; woodworker and little time sawmill administrator James W. Marshall found a gold piece in the American River that would always show signs of change the historical backdrop of California and America1. Not exclusively did the Gold Rush prompt California 's permission into the

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    London wrote this book to express literature during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush took place in the Northwest of Yukon through 1896 and 1899. Yukon is a very cold place. The roads were covered with ice. The way to travel during the Klondike Gold Rush was by dog sledding. Buck, the main character in this story, learns the ways and laws in a primitive way. Jack London uses literature to express the Klondike Gold Rush. I chose this book because the uses great literature to explain

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    Essay on California Gold Rush Of 1849

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    Would you travel, live, and work under harsh conditions for months to fulfill a dream? Thousands of gold hunters from all corners of the world did so in hopes of striking rich after an abrupt discovery of gold in the American territory of California. This huge worldwide flock of people became known as The California Gold Rush of 1849. The Gold Rush granted riches to only a handful of miners, but provided Americans as well as many foreigners a new homeland and life. At the start of the 1830

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