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Title: Gold Rush


1
Gold Rush
  • By
  • Brenna

2
Gold Fever
  • Began in 1848
  • People wanted gold
  • It was in San Francisco

3
Routes to California
  • Cape Horn
  • N.Y. to C.A. in clippers ships
  • Isthmus to Panama

4
Life in the Mining Camps
  • Tents and covered wagons
  • Scarce food
  • Little amounts of medicine
  • Many miners died

5
Growing Cities
  • Mining cities grew quickly
  • Entreprenurs sold goods to miners
  • Most women worked
  • Businesses charged high prices

6
Ways to Mine for gold
  • 1848-1849 simple tools
  • mid 1850s- hydraulic mining
  • 1884 hydraulic mining against the law

7
The Thirty First State
  • Monterey convention
  • Constitution for California
  • California becomes a state

8
The End of Ranchos
  • Squatters settled on ranchos
  • Land act of 1851
  • Rancheros couldnt prove ownership
  • Way of life ended

9
Bibliography
  • internet
  • nettrekker.com
  • google.com
  • Social Studies textbook

10
The End
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