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May 20, 2010 · Discover how the Gold Rush led to the creation of California. Own America: The Story of Us on DVD or Blu-ray! http://www.shophistorystore.com/HISTORY®, now r...
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Nov 18, 2020 · Learn more about the gold strike in California and the gold rush that followed. Learn about the prospectors ("49ers") who traveled to California from all over the world to try and strike...
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Mar 3, 2023 · We'll explore such a case, the California gold rush. The discovery of gold in the late 1840s changed the American West forever.
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Sep 29, 2016 · Not many Americans lived in California, but that soon changed. By 1849 thousands upon thousands of people arrived in search of gold. Support the cartoons on ...
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The discovery of gold in1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society in California.
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Nov 6, 2006 · In the two decades after the discovery of gold, 120,000 Indians, four-fifths of California's Native population, would be wiped out — most by starvation or disease, others at the murderous...
Feb 8, 2024 · A gold miner pans for gold in California, 1885. The state's gold rush only lasted a few years, but some have continued to seek gold there to this day.