- The gold rush brought many things to not just California but the United States as well .
- For example they brought money to California to build boom towns .
- Boom towns are towns that are built rapidly .
- The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush
- thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area
- By the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000
- Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter
- January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma
- Just days after Marshall’s discovery at Sutter’s Mill, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed
- Ending the Mexican-American War and leaving California in the hands of the United States
- At the time, the population of the territory consisted of 6,500 Californian's , 150,000 Native Americans
- Marshall and Sutter tried to keep news of the discovery under wraps, word got out, and by mid-March at least one newspaper was reporting that large quantities of gold were being turned up at Sutter’s Mill
- For example they brought money to California to build boom towns .
- Boom towns are towns that are built rapidly .
- The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush
- thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area
- By the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000
- Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter
- January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma
- Just days after Marshall’s discovery at Sutter’s Mill, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed
- Ending the Mexican-American War and leaving California in the hands of the United States
- At the time, the population of the territory consisted of 6,500 Californian's , 150,000 Native Americans
- Marshall and Sutter tried to keep news of the discovery under wraps, word got out, and by mid-March at least one newspaper was reporting that large quantities of gold were being turned up at Sutter’s Mill