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The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. At first, loose gold and gold nuggets could be picked up off the ground, and since there was no law regarding property rights in the goldfields a system of staking claims was developed. The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The Effects of the Gold Rush. Gold Rush. In 1849 a man named John A Sutter moved to California were he had a large grant of land in the Sacramento valley.He was going to use it to start up a saw mill. Little did John Know that he was sitting on a gold mine of disaster. People There were people who had the foresight to see the economic possibilities the Gold Rush would create (examples: Samuel Brannan, John Studebaker, Levi Strauss, Charles Crocker). Today San Francisco's streets are named after many of these people.  The Impact of Gold. The Impact of Gold. When gold was discovered in 1848, people poured into California to prospect the golden mountains.. At the height of the gold rush the atmosphere in the mining country was of extreme excitement and greed. The impact of the gold rush, however, struck much deeper than soil of the Sierra Mountains. Many forty-niners did became prosperous from the mining of gold. The national economy also was impacted by the gold rush and did well because many companies across the country invested, in some way, shape or form, in the gold rush. The table below shows the rapid increase and then the decrease of the amount of money that came out of the gold fields of California. 1 The Gold Rush ushered in the largest mass migration in U.S. history. 2  In March 1848, there were about 157,000 people in the California territory; fewer than 800 were non-native Americans, 150,000 were California Indians, and 6,500 were Californios of Spanish/Mexican descent. The California Gold Rush and the Contoversy over the State Constitution. Introduction: Today we begin the second unit in our course during which we will learn about the political, social, and economic evolution of California during its first fifty years of statehood. The arrival of hundreds of thousands of new people within a few years, compared to a population of some 15,000 Europeans and Californians beforehand, had many dramatic effects. First, the human and environmental costs of the Gold Rush were substantial. Native Americans became the victims of disease, starvation and genocidal attacks; the Native American population, estimated at 150,000 in 1845, was less than 30,000 by 1870. The Gold Rush also made California irresistable to the U.S. government because of all of the wealth it was bringing, so after a lot more debate, California became the 31st state in 1850.  1 The Gold Rush had many short-and long-term consequences for California: 2  The population of California soared as people from around the world came to get rich quick. 3  Some east coast businessmen who were already wealthy gained further wealth, especially by transporting people to California by sea. The California Gold Rush and the Contoversy over the State Constitution. Introduction: Today we begin the second unit in our course during which we will learn about the political, social, and economic evolution of California during its first fifty years of statehood. GOLD RUSHES AND WHEAT EXPORTS Agricultural histories of California during the Gold Rush period tend to focus on the years after 1860, by which time the chaos of the mineral boom had disappeared and grain shippers were sending large cargoes of wheat to Great Britain. 
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