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1. Pick up a Do Now 2. Turn in missing assignments to the back
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2. Square, Triangle, Circle Square with your thinking Angle you disagree with or don’t understand Question circling your head
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3. Discovery and the Forty-Niners
First gold discovered on John Sutter’s Mill, by James Marshall in 1848.
After news broke thousands flooded in to attempt to find gold by 1849.
2/3 of forty-niners were Americans, the rest came from Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia and China.
Most forty-niners were young and male
Just a few days later – Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago was signed – adding California territory to the US
John Sutter

4. Journey to California
There were three ways to get to California from United States…
Overland- cutting across the country taking routes like the Oregon or Santa Fe Trail.
By ship to Panama in Central America, across dangerous jungles to the Pacific side.
By ship around the horn of South America

5. San Francisco
Travel hub between those traveling by sea to get to California gold country
April 1848 population: 850
December 1849 population: 25,000
Major growth
Culturally diverse
Lawlessness/ fighting
Illegal activities

6. Life in the Mining Camps
There was “a row of canvas tents, [months later] there were two thousand men…and the streets were lined with drinking saloons and gambling tables.”
-Luzena Wilson, mining wife at Coyote Diggings camp
Fights over claimed boundaries
Often took “justice” into their own hands
“In the short space of twenty-four hours we have had murders, fearful accidents, bloody deaths, a mob, whippings, a hanging, and attempt at suicide, and a fatal duel.”
-Louise Clappe

7. In the Field Hard, tedious work
Separation of gold from dirt with water
Excavating a river bed after the water has been diverted
Panning
Hard, tedious work
Long days (Approximately 16 hours) digging up mud, dirt, and stones while standing knee-deep in icy streams
“The day of quick fortune-making was gone. There are thousands of men now in California who would gladly go home if they had the money.” –Miner, 1851

8. Once mining became difficult attitudes towards immigrants changed.
Between more than 20,000 Chinese immigrated to California (In 1852, 1 in 10 Californians was Chinese)
Originally welcomed by Californians!
Once mining became difficult attitudes towards immigrants changed.
1852, state legislature passed law requiring foreign miners to pay monthly fee to mine.
Most immigrants left
Chinese immigrants paid the tax and stayed
Americans began to bully Chinese into leaving (cutting their queues (braids) and burning their shacks)
Many Chinese then left the mines to open businesses or begin farms.
Chinese Immigrants

9. As you watch the video…
Think about how Americans opinions and views of land and immigrants were shaped around gold.
How did the gold rush change society?
The gold rush had many people moving into one place, why is this significant?
1. Hopeful to strike it rich – gathered people from all around the world
2. Take risks, gamble on life, money money money, inventing a new self, Hope
3. First time this many people were in one place culturally and racially different

10. Legacy By 1852 the gold rush was over,
in that time 250,000 people flooded into California.
Positive Legacy
Negative Legacy
By 1850, California had enough people to become the first state in the far west
Diverse group of both immigrants and emigrants
Lots of economic opportunities
Native American population dropped drastically from warfare and disease (between population went from 150,000 to 30,000)
Many Californios lost their land to newcomers
Racism
Over $2 billion worth of precious metals were extracted during the Gold Rush
$81 million in gold was extracted by 1852 (then $45 million annually through 1857)

11. I AM poem
Pick a person/perspective to take a look at during the gold rush
You can use your own research skills to find a perspective OR go to this website
Possible perspectives: white male, white female, Californios, Mexican, Chinese, African Americans, and those that stayed behind in the East.
Write an I AM poem to express the experience of that person
You poem should include 2 images/pictures
Be ready to share in 30 min
If you finish raise your hand and I will check it – then work on the study guide

12. What do the perspectives tell us about Americans during the Gold Rush
What do the perspectives tell us about Americans during the Gold Rush? What does it mean to be American during this time?