California Gold Rush-I would go West because there was gold I could sell for money.The gold also fired up the U.S economy.The Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event.The California Gold Rush happened between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War.The Gold gave the U.S economy and made people dream to construct cross-country Railroad line.People from Mexico had to live in Reservations when they went to California.The California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in American History.It brought 300.000 people to California.Wagon Trains were probably used to carry gold.People also traveled to California to look for Land Rush.In the cold morning hours of January 24,1848,James Marshall,a construction foreman at Sutter’s Mill,was inspecting the water flow through the mill’s tail race.The sawmill,on the banks of the American River in Coloma,California,was owned by John.A Sutter,who desperately needed lumber for for the building of a large flour mill.On that particular morning,Marshall not only found the water to be flowing adequately through the mill,but also spied a shiny object twinkling in the frigid stream.Stopping to pick it up,he looked with awe at a pea-sized gold nugget lying within his hand.
Resources:www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/feautures/goldrush-california/
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/californiagoldrush.html
www.historynet.com/california-gold-rush
