California Gold Rush

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The United States acquired the state of California from ...

• Winning the Texas Revolution

• Buying the land from Mexico after weakening their security

• Winning the Mexican-American War

• Spain

Bodie, California
Few laws, went from a few hundred to a few thousand within months, stored Gold deposits within the mountains.

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Towns

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Places like Bodie, California were examples of mining camps that ...

• Stored valuable gold attracting settlers

• Went from a few hundred people to thousands of people in months

• Had few laws/rules

• Were safe and free from bandits

• Were abandoned during the Gold Rush

People travelled through the Panama Canal, Cape Horn route around South America, or the overland routes on wagon across land.

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Routes

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Match the following routes gold miners took to get to California

• The route gold miners took on steamship between Mexico and Guatamala

• Teh route gold miners took on wagons and horses

• The longest route gold miners took on ship

Panama Canal

Overland Trails

Cape Horn (South America)

• Panama Canal

• Overland Trails

• Cape Horn (South America)

A mining technique of filtering gold out of dirt deposits on river beds.

Ice cold water with hot sun light during 10-14 hour work days with little payoff were risks for Miners. Only the fastest could get rich will many courted failure.

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Placer Mining

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Placer mining ...

• Used pick axes and hammers

• Took place in river beds

• Filtered gold from collected gravel in rivers

• Used TNT/Dynamite

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What were the challenges of Placer Mining?

• Using pickaxes

• Spent 10-14 hours a day panning for gold

• Standing in freezing cold river water

• Being exposed to sun radiation from the waist-up

• Using TNT/Dynamite

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The ​

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changed people's definition of success.

Most people who sought out gold ​

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find what they were looking for.

Riches went to the ​

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people to settle in California.

People were willing to court ​

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to become rich overnight.

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did not

fastest

failure

Places like Bannock, Montana were home to outlaws and vigilantes (someone who takes the law into their own hands)
"I'm innocent" was the giveaway of a guilty outlaw.

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Outlaw Towns

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Match the following

• A famous town run by outlaws and vigilantes

• The phrase said by guilty outlaws that got them killed

• Someone who takes the law into their own hands without order

Bannock, Montana

"I'm innocent"

Vigilante

• Bannock, Montana

• "I'm innocent"

• Vigilante

Water-pressure based mining technique to blowout mountain sides. Dangerous and harmful to the environment.

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Hydraulic Mining

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Hydraulic Mining ...

• Consisted of water pressure to blowout rock/mountains

• Was harmful for the environment

• Consisted of pickaxes and TNT

• Happened near river beds

Digging out tunnels and blowing up rock with TNT

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Lode Mining

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Lode Mining ...

• Used heavy machinery to blowout rocks

• Located in river beds

• Consisted of digging tunnels and using TNT

Categorize

Options (12)

Equipment: pans and filters

Sold items miners needed

Equipment: TNT & Pickaxes

Equipment: high-pressure water hose

Risks: Freezing and skin cancer

Risks: environment degrading

Risks: low risk, usually successful

Risks: Cave collapse, burns

River beds

Inside caves/mines

Along a mountain side

San Francisco

Contrast these Gold Rush techniques:

Placer Mining

Hydraulic Mining

Lode Mining

Mine Merchants

Boomtowns were not just homes for miners.

Businesses selling supplies also followed the gold. Miners needed supplies such as picks, pans, and shovels to dig for gold. They also needed everyday items like food, clothing, and bedding.

Often business owners sold these supplies at high prices because the miners were willing to pay the high prices.

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​Businesses

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Many people got ​

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during the Gold Rush from selling items like pickaxes, ​

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, and other equipment to miners. Therefore, ​

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rich

merchants

gold miners

jeans

farmers

bankers

teachers

Most of the early Chinese immigration to the United States can be traced to the mid-1800s. These early immigrants—some 25,000 in the 1850s alone—came seeking economic opportunity in America. The Chinese arriving in San Francisco, who came primarily from the Taishan and Zhongshan regions as well as Guangdong province of mainland China, did so at the height of the California Gold Rush, and many worked in the mines scattered throughout the northern part of the state. Others took jobs as farmhands or in the burgeoning garment industry in the “City by the Bay.” Still more became laborers with the Central Pacific and Transcontinental railroads, and were instrumental in building the transportation infrastructure that helped fuel the westward expansion of the United States before, during, and after the Civil War.

​Chinese Immigration

Multiple Choice

Many of the Chinese took jobs in________

• Railroads, Gold Mining, Farming

• Cattle Raising, Restaurants, Banking

• Kung Fu Schools, Fishing, Logging

• Technology, Book Writing, FBI

Multiple Choice

When did the Chinese immigrate to the United States?

• Mid-1700s

• Early 1900s

• Late 2021

• Mid-1800s

Multiple Choice

What factor led to the Chinese Immigration?

• Dictator Government

• Potato Famine

• Economic Opportunity

• Government Jobs

Multiple Choice

Chinese immigrants, after facing discrimination, rallied in a place in San Francisco called...

• Chinese Enclave

• Refugee Camp

• China Town

• Oakland