gold rush by: valencia mckinley and francisco peguero
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Gold rush
By: Valencia McKinley and Francisco peguero
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Sutters Mill
• John A. Sutter had 50,000 acres of land from Mexico in California
• Dream: a great estate in the wilderness.
• 18,000 head of cattle• He helped many settlers giving
them work.
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OREGON TRAIL
MINERS MOVED TO CALIFORNIA ON THE OREGON TRAIL
THE TRIP WEST LASTED FIVE OR SIX MONTHS
PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED ON THE OREGON TRAIL ARE EMIGRANTS
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Life in California
They built communities called boom towns
Robberies and murders were of daily occurrence
Merchants profited from the gold rush
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San Francisco
• Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 residents left to chase gold
• The city became a ghost town
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Forty-niners
• People who moved to California during 1849
• More than 80,000 people moved to California for gold
• 80% were Americans
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Gold fever
Thousands moved to California 1848 6million$ had been taken from the
American river Most miners traveled by sea that’s how bad the
fever wasNot many of them struck it rich
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The history of gold• 1848 a carpenter found gold flakes
in a stream.• It was found throughout California
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SULTERS MILL
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CREDITS
• THE AMERICAN JOURNEY TEXT BOOK
• MS.PATTI’S MANIFEST DESTINY PICTURES
• VALENCIA MCKINLEY • FRANCISCO PEGUERO
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