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View Collection. Population Distribution 17thth Century. Gold Fever. View Article. Historian: Dr. Malcolm Rohrbough. Educational Resources in Your Inbox. The Forty Niners contributed to the Economy by populating the state of California. The negative impacts due to diseases can be seen in Documents 4 and 6. In Doc 4, a report of the Conquest of Mexico, the author states the devastating effects of newly brought diseases in the Aztec kingdom.
Because the Aztecs had not built up an immunity to Europeans diseases, when the diseases were brought over, the results were devastating, with many Aztecs dying and unable to provide food.
Due to this report being an Aztec account of the Conquest of their land, the details may be slightly biased, and the negatives slightly exaggerated, in spite of the European conquistadors. The impact of disease ca also be seen in Doc 6, a report on the spread of disease into the New World.
It was known as the Foreign Miners Tax and the showing viably forced overpowering expense accumulation on the migrant workers. In January of , a carpenter in California made a discovery that changed the history of North America, 2 cold nuggets.
Shortly after people flocked towards California with the hopes of gaining big and forever changing their lives. The U. The California Gold Rush greatly enhanced the U. On the other hand, California is a divided state, which makes hard to pass bills. But the political parties refuses to work together because they have different point of views from the economy.
Even if the democrats won the supermajority, they will still need the. After the railroads the technology seemed to explode to the fast pace world we have today.
So the treaty signed by about Cherokees determined the lives of about 17, other Cherokees to live in Indian Territories, and caused the Cherokees to be forced to leave their homeland.
In conclusion, the U. The white settlers greed for gold and more land caused the Cherokees to leave their homeland, and resulted in the deaths of about 4, thousand Cherokees. At the time, John Sutter had 3 mills and more than two hundred and sixty people working for him Kosher, Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to California to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush, but almost none of them were women. In , 92 percent of the people prospecting for gold were men. The few women who did travel to the west eked out a living in the growing boomtowns, working in the restaurants, saloons and hotels that seemingly popped up every day.
Few took them up on this offer. The percentage of women in gold mining communities did eventually increase somewhat, but even in they numbered fewer than 10,—just 19 percent.
Early sections of San Francisco were built out of ships abandoned by prospectors. As the formerly tiny town began to boom, demand for lumber increased dramatically, and the ships were dismantled and sold as construction material. Hundreds of houses, banks, saloons, hotels, jails and other structures were built out of the abandoned ships, while others were used as landfill for lots near the waters edge.
Today, more than years after the Gold Rush began, archeologists and preservations continue to find relics, sometimes even entire ships, beneath the streets of the City by the Bay. Prospecting for gold was a very costly enterprise. Most of the men who flocked to northern California arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs. Stuck in a remote region, far from home, many prospectors coughed up most of their hard-earned money for the most basic supplies.
More fortunes were made by merchants than by miners. Many died of disease or by accident. Hiram Pierce, a miner from Troy, New York, conducted a funeral for a young man from Maine who died of gangrene after carelessly shooting himself in the leg.
Sucker Flat Despite the relentless work, the promise of gold drew more miners west every year. Within a few years, the little port of San Francisco became a raucous frontier metropolis with a lively economy and California was named the 31st state.
The fortunate bettered their circumstance, but mining required, above all, luck. And not everyone got lucky. White Men's Gold Part of the difficulty for the individual miner was competition. As the mining region grew more crowded, there was less gold to go around. Anglo-American miners became increasingly territorial over land they viewed as meant for them and forced other nationalities from the mines with violent tactics. As for California's native people, one hundred and twenty thousand Native Americans died of disease, starvation and homicide during the gold rush.
Fading Dreams As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold rush growing more elusive. Many men went to work for the larger mining companies that invested in technology and equipment to reach the gold that lay below the surface.
By the mids mining for gold had become less an individual enterprise and more a wage labor job. Invasive Technique The large mining companies were highly successful at extracting gold.
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