Nevada became a popular gold digging location after the Comstock Lode had been uncovered and 340 million dollars worth of gold and silver had been found. Small findings of gold occurred in parts of Montana, Idaho and other western states that led to huge groups of gold lusting men and women. This want for gold eventually led to numerous Boomtowns showing up all over the place. These Boomtowns grew very quickly with almost every few buildings being a saloon. After the “easy to find” gold was gone mining operations were set up all over the West.
News of gold spread very quickly. An old mountain trader named John Cantrell found a sack full of gold and spread news to Kansas City, Missouri of the event and other traders brought the news to New Mexico, Fort Laramie, and Kansas. Within a short amount of time before winter arrived, Cherry Creek had gained about one hundred new people. The first arrival of gold was on August 26, 1858, which had poor people sweeping in from Kansas City, Lawrence, St. Louis, Omaha and Leavenworth to jump on the chance of changing their
A town born in a mining boom at Pikes Peak in 1858, Denver was to become an unlikely thriving metropolis by the end of the nineteenth century. What now is the capital and largest city in Colorado had the humblest of origins. General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, hadn’t the slightest idea of the chain reaction he put into motion when he discovered gold along the South Platte River. The Pikes Peak Gold Rush brought thousands to Colorado for instant riches. Although, scattered camps of miners settled throughout the Rockies and did not congregate in a high concentration in any particular area.
So they had to work for claim holders instead of mining themselves. In 1858, more and more miners started to move into the Fraser River area for more gold. By the end of the summer, more than 10,000 miners were at Fraser River working. Governor Douglas found out that the mining business was profitable, so he decided to build a road that connects to the goldfields. However, his decision was not clever.
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).
Chris Sadlon SS/ Core 3 Compare contrast Both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson have different views about the future of America, but both think there way will make America a better place. Hamilton believed in the government getting stronger with the rise of large companies that can make more jobs. The question is what decision will help us more? As they both had different views they created the first parties but they might have been called the same as now but they were a little different. Jefferson and Hamilton had different thoughts for America and the power for the people.
By 1471, they reached what came to be known as the “Gold Coast” or what is how largely modern day Ghana. For the first ten years, they engaged in trade with the people of Endia which they termed “the mine” because there gold. Trade was good, fabrics, metal wares, in particular brass and fabrics, especially cotton. But all of these were gold. So in 1482 the Portuguese built a built a fort at Elmina [the mine] to protect their trade and they then spread across the Gold Coast.
A good friend of mine had found a rock the size of a bull frog and had earned 300 dollars on it. I hope to find a rock that big soon. July 19, 1849 Coming to California was a great choice. I got to meet people from all over. Some were nice and some were very rude.
The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights, but he also argued that human welfare was more important than property rights. He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice, and that a President can only succeed in making his economic agenda successful if he makes the protection of human welfare his highest priority. Roosevelt believed that the concentration in industry was a natural part of the economy. He wanted executive agencies (not the courts) to regulate business. The federal government should be used to protect the laboring men, women and children from exploitation.
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