Gold rush

By: Valencia McKinley and Francisco peguero

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.

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

Life in California

They built communities called boom towns

Robberies and murders were of daily occurrence

Merchants profited from the gold rush

San Francisco

• Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 residents left to chase gold

• The city became a ghost town

Forty-niners

• People who moved to California during 1849

• More than 80,000 people moved to California for gold

• 80% were Americans

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

The history of gold• 1848 a carpenter found gold flakes

in a stream.• It was found throughout California

SULTERS MILL

CREDITS

• THE AMERICAN JOURNEY TEXT BOOK

• MS.PATTI’S MANIFEST DESTINY PICTURES

• VALENCIA MCKINLEY • FRANCISCO PEGUERO

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