California Gold Rush By: Zoe Dubin, Bria Bowman, Jaclyn Piccari, Becky Toll, Samantha Peck
Dec 19, 2015
Beginning The mayor of California sells Sutter land
Gold found by Swiss immigrant John Marshall
The California gold Rush begins in 1848!
population 14,000 residents by
1848
100,000 residents by 1849
200,000 residents by 1852
California became a state in 1850
Residents mostly unmarried men
Woman= 5% population
“Forty- niners”: people who traveled to California in 1849 to find gold
Chinese California gold rush brought in Europeans
and Asians
Asians=10% population in 1852(mainly labored as minors)
Disasters Flood of immigrants was a disaster for the
Native Americans
Gold rush brought wealth to pacific coastal cities
Many strikes