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    The Gold Rush

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    Migration to the gold fields The gold rush was the turning point of Australia’s history thanks to Edward Hargraves he discovered gold in New South Wales in April 1851 and soon the gold rush kicked off. Clear evidence has been provided on how Edward Hargraves started the gold rush started, Information on how push and pull factors influenced people to the gold fields. Stories have been recounted on how life during the gold rush was like in the gold fields. Information on how many numbers of migrants

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    Impact Of The Gold Rush

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    Gold is the catalyst for numerous events that develop the American economy just before the Civil War. Mankind appears to have a passionate, enduring, and daresay destined obsession with gold and mineral wealth. A gold rush is a force of nature that seems to shake up a culture just as much as an economy. This is evident particularly in early to middle 1800’s America where there is already this grand ideal that divine providence wills for a massive expansion of American territory. The introduction

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    Australian Gold Rush

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    Introduction: The gold rush era was a significant event in Australian history. The Australian gold rush first started during May 1851 in Bathurst after Edward Hargraves found a grain of gold in a waterhole. The gold rush was a period of time for immigration of workers locally and from overseas and marked the start of significant changes in the Australian economy. Where and why did the gold rush occur? Hargraves thought there were similarities in the geological features between Australia and Californian

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    Gold rush Today I will be talking about the gold rush and I think it will be a lot of fun so I will just let you read about the gold rush It started when some men were working and they were digging.then they found gold it pretty much spread immediately. People came from everywhere to find gold. Then they started to make towns and people wanted the gold. They started to fight and it became kaos. After people moved in to the gold land people were charging 19

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    The California Gold Rush

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    A Gold Rush is a new discovery of gold sometimes occupied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals that brings an onrush of minor seeking their Fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States while smaller gold rushes to place elsewhere. The welfare result English tribute Wiley because of reduced migration causes and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was unprofitable for most acres and

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    The Gold Rush and Discrimination California is the state that well known with the largest population in the United State, and it is the most culturally and racially diverse society.When walking in the street, it can see different kinds of races and hear many different languages. “Melting pot” is a good definition to explain this diverse phenomenon, which describes that the lost of different cultures living together harmoniously in a common society. Actually, numbers of these different cultural

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    Gold Rush Challenges

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    Being a gold prospector during the Gold Rush was inarguably one of the most challenging obstacles a human being could ever face. Some might even consider the lengths people were willing to go to for gold rather reckless and idiotic because of how menacing these obstacles were. The challenges that people during the Gold Rush faced, while somewhat incomprehensible to people now, was an extremely important goal to people in the 1800’s. In the articles “Race to the Klondike” and All About the Klondike

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    The California Gold Rush

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    Nevada and California. Many of these new establishments helped freed slaves find living as the gold mines were a huge ideal to foreigners traveling from the south and midwest. The Gold Rush was found in Sierra Nevada during 1848, when gold was found in a mine. This completely changed the popularity and population of California. Although, for many people who wanted to travel to mine for gold during the Gold Rush, it was a tough journey as there was no true railroad nor steamboats yet to be taken to the

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    The gold rush helped California industrialize. It is well known that industrialization in America started in the east. However, the gold rush was the reason why California industrialized much faster than the east. With the technological improvements, that the gold rush demands it helped California industrialize much faster. James Marshall first discovered gold on January 24 1848 on the south fork of the American river. A not so well know part of California history is that James Marshall was not

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    California Gold Rush

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    In 1849, millions of people rushed to California. These people came for the Gold Rush, which was a historical event that will be remembered forever. These people were called 49ers. Some traveled by boat, and then walked across the Panama. Then they took another boat to C.A. Others took a boat around the Cape Horn to C.A. or went on station wagon. People from all over the world came to C.A. in search for gold. People traveled by land and sea. Traveling in a station wagon wasn’t that bad, and the

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