The Gold Rush - 1849
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- The Gold Rush - 1849
- Who were the Gold Rush migrants?
- Between 1836 & 1846 - total number of migrant using the O.Trail was 5000
- Thousands came by ship from all over the world
- Famine in China - 20,000 Chinese people migrated in 1852
- Most migrants didn't find gold
- Professional miners with the equipment and expertise to mind underground took over through the 1950s
- Consequences of the Gold Rush
- Migration to California - 300,000 ppl by 1855.
- California becomes a state
- Problems of lawlessness in the mining camps
- Racial tension due to immigration
- Gold from here boosts US economy - helps to fund railroads
- Tension with Plains Indians - a huge increase in migration along the Oregon Trail
- Genocide of Californian Indians by migrants
- GENOCIDE = deliberate killing of large numbers of people
- Manifest Destiny - White Americans see their destiny coming true
- Farming boom in California
- Migration to California - 300,000 ppl by 1855.
- Who were the Gold Rush migrants?
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