People began flocking to California when they started hearing stories about the gold rush, dreams of making it rich, gold lying around just waiting for you to grab it. The gold rush began when james w. marshall found some at sutter mill in Coloma californai. He probably shouldn’t have told anybody because after he did about 300,000 people showed up looking for gold, good for making cities out west but bad for james. The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852.
He noticed the Net was having a much stronger influence over him than his PC ever had (324). Carr does not say if it is positive or negative that the Net was having such a strong influence on him. Like it or not, the Web has made such an impact on society that Carr concludes, “What’s clear though, is that for society as a whole the Net has become, in just twenty years since the software programmer Tim Berners- Lee wrote the code for the World Wide Web, the communication and information medium of choice… by choice or necessity, we’ve embraced the Net’s uniquely rapid-fire mode of collecting and dispensing information” (318). It does not matter if one uses the Web as a want or need, the Web has become the communication and information medium of choice. Carr discusses the disadvantages and advantages, but feels ambivalent and does not feel strongly for or against the Web.
Economics: Salida is the service, supply, and tourism center for the Upper Arkansas Valley. Being a gold mine town, The city developed quickly, and became the hub of a prosperous mining and agricultural region within a decade of its founding. Salida endured devastating fires in its business areas in 1886 and 1888, but rebounded to build a substantial commercial area consisting principally of two-story brick buildings. The burned buildings deprived many jobs - which drove the unemployment rate up to 15-30 percent in the late 1980’s - though the citizens of salida slowly recovered. Transportation: The Denver and Rio Grande
Making a Gold Rush: Through the Good Times and the Bad The first two years of the Gold Rush seemed to be California’s miners most lucrative years, whereas I tend to disagree with Rohrbough and his statement that “the Gold Rush…generated a complex and highly competitive economy that conferred advantages on those with capital and luck and that ignored men who possessed neither.” Success is determined with what you choose to do with your earnings and how successful you were, as well as the investments that were made during the first years of the Gold Rush. Luck has nothing to do with the less profitable 49ers, the deteriorating conditions of the placers and areas in which they mined for years after the overwhelming influx of miners and immigrants
In 1826, an American named Jedediah Smith started to sell furs form different routes. Over time, more American came to California for a shelter and land. By 1848, they learned it was full of real gold. (My State, 3) That was the starting of the Gold Rush, the time that changed California forever. Then the United States defeated Mexico that declared California and part of Mexico were now parts of the United States (My State, 4).
Mining was an important factor in the development of the West during the 1800s. When people got wind of a discovery of gold or silver, they would flock to the area with hopes of striking it rich due to the high value of these minerals. These prospectors would use pan and placer mining to sift the minerals out from streams or the shallow surface of the land. After these shallow resources of the minerals were depleted, commercial mining outfits would come in and extract the gold and silver from deep underground. “The thousands of people who flocked to the mining towns in search of quick wealth and who failed to find it often remained as wage laborers in corporate mines after the boom period” (Brinkley, 2007).
These railroads were completed by thousands of Chinese immigrants, who had to face discrimination and were paid less than whites. 11C) John D. Rockefeller was an oil tycoon who used a trust to gain control of America, eventually becoming incredibly rich as a result. Due to trusts not being legal mergers, Rockefeller reaped most of the profits. His company, Standard Oil Company, made him a lot of money due to his tactic of lowering his prices below his competition, then raising them when he controlled the market. 11D) Thomas Edison was a pioneer on the new industrial frontier, the perfected the incandescent light bulb-patented in 1880- and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power.
Part A One of the most significant geographical factors that contributed to the expansion of the United States was the existence of gold in California. Prior to the Gold Rush of 1849, California was primarily a Mexican province where to a few adventurous Americans had made their way. However, once the news of gold spread east and the New York Herald printed the news of gold within its pages, the slow passage of people to the west “accelerated into a stampede.” (The California gold rush, 2003) This explosion of pioneers was small by no means. In the spring of 1849, over 30,000 people assembled at launch points along the plains ready to make the long hard journey to California in hopes of striking it rich. The promise of gold seemed great
The social economic impact brought many settlers to the northern part of California, and the discovery of “gold” brought on the American conquest in 1848. According to text; The Devil in Silicon Valley, Arthur Stephen Pitti discuses on page 32-33, how the discovery of gold in Northern California brought many settlers; as well as many immigrates, to this state right after the war. Before the California Gold Rush; “165,000 people lived in California and the vast majority of them (150,00 were Indians)”; and in 1848 a big demographic and economic change accord which was brought on by the gold rush. The discovery of gold by James Marshall, “would leak out, and the rush to California was on.” Stephen Pitti best describes it best, “As battle smoke cleared and the ink dried on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, many of the Americans who flooded into the state anticipated the sharp decline of Mexican Americans’ cultural and political influence. While more distant Southern California towns such as Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego certainly experienced tumult as a result of the mineral discoveries in the Northern California foothills and many more gold-seekers passed through the San Francisco Bay area, including San Jose, on the way to the Mother Lode.” The
The California Gold rush evoked adventurers in search of instant wealth. It all started at Sutter’s Mill by James Marshall on January 24, 1848. But it is said that it was not the first discovery of gold in California. The first actual documented discovery of gold in California was said to happen 6 years earlier in the hill about thirty miles northwest of Los Angeles. The discovery of gold sparked mass hysteria as thousands of immigrants from around the world over took what would soon be called the Gold Country of California.