Money, Money, Money! The Goal to Strike It Rich in California Nina Byas CUSH 101 November 25, 2014 Final Paper People wanted more gold; they strived for it, so they went on a quest to find it. The California Gold Rush began around 1848. It was James W. Marshall who started it all (Krensky 1). He had found pieces of gold at Sutter’s Mill in a river.
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.
Fear of being compelled to provide sexual services for the Japanese distressed the nurses intensely. "We felt sick; we couldn’t eat", Betty Jeffery wrote [29]. As they waited, Veronica Clancy said, to hear the "steps of the loathsome creatures" on the gravel path, "Nights were just hell" [30]. Pressure was increased on the nurses when the Japanese cut off all food rations to the camp until the nurses complied. The nurses felt the same anger as the other women prisoners at their own lack of power and the same repugnance to be sex servants, and as women in the military they had additional worries.
It first started in 1848. The news of the gold found quickly spread and brought around 300,000 people to California. People from the United States and different parts of the world found their way to California in search of wealth. While most latched on to the idea of striking it rich in the gold mines, others capitalized in other ways. Bars, schools and churches were newly built.
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.
There was a lot of poverty and many jobs were lost which caused people to steal food or other items to get money and survive. Many people got caught stealing and were put into jail even if they stole just a loaf of bread and for this reason many prisons became overcrowded. England had a couple of solutions and one was to send the convicts to East Africa but they had diseases in the area or in South West Africa but they lacked adequate water. The British then decided to transport convicts to the new land which Captain Cook had claimed for
The first wave of Chinese Immigration was spurred by the Gold Rush of 1849 in California. Similar to other foreign gold-seeker, those Chinese immigrants came across the Pacific Ocean looking for Gold. Also, in 1850s, there was a civil war called TaiPing Rebellion going on in China that was tearing the country apart. Many people survived from
Section A – ‘The suffering of marginalised characters in No Sugar stems not only from physical hardships but from the lack autonomy in their day-to-day lives.’ Discuss. No Sugar by Jack Davis depicts how the Indigenous characters of the play suffer at the behest of racism, inequality, abuse and assimilation forced upon them by the white authority. The pain and suffering also stems from their lack of personal freedom and is shown by Davis throughout the play. Davis portrays the displacement and inequality forced upon the Indigenous characters. The white audience is exposed to the hypocrisy that Mr Neal and Sergeant Carrol can drink but Sam and Jimmy are not allowed and are thrown in ‘the lock up’ for doing so.
Jasmine Cross His 200 Dr. Tamaka Hobbs 25 March 2013 Chapter 6 Review Question 1. The domestic slave trade and exploitation of black women affected slave families because the marriage and children and the fact that they had no legal rights, and of course no freedom. The marriages never really worked with the slaves because they were just paired together , and then children would get parted away from their families like when they were 5 or so. Also sexual abuse played a huge roll in the black women from the white southerns. 2.
In instances such as Brannan’s, you didn’t have to look for gold to make a profit, he had the right idea of buying up everything people needed to find gold (Hist. 347 lecture October 1, 2012). San Francisco became a business capital, running the same profitability as New York and Boston, becoming a center for lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and entrepreneurs. Within Rohrbough’s text, he states various instances where individuals dealing with the Gold Rush such as Brannan were becoming profitable without having to actually go to the gold mines. An example of this would be that of Alfred