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Author | : Stephanie Watson |
Publisher | : Lerner Classroom |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9781467786362 |
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"The California gold rush lasted only seven years, but it affected people around the world. Track the important events and turning points that made the discovery of gold a pivotal part of the westward expansion of the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Sylvia Alden Roberts |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0595524923 |
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Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
Author | : Malcolm J. Rohrbough |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1998-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520216598 |
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When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.
Author | : Q. David Bowers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1055 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9780943161877 |
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Author | : Benjamin Mountford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520967585 |
Download A Global History of Gold Rushes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Author | : Mark A. Eifler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317910214 |
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In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
Author | : Malcolm J. Rohrbough |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030018140X |
Download Rush to Gold Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 gold seekers in the mid-1800s, and it is the story of 30,000 Frenchman who came by sea that is told in The Rush to Gold. This is the first book to give an international focus to this pivotal time.
Author | : John Walton Caughey |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520027633 |
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Author | : Richard Thomas Stillson |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803243251 |
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A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319068588 |
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The story of the California Gold Rush is one of unanticipated, rapid, and momentous change. In 1848, California was a remote and underpopulated province of Mexico; by 1850 it had become part of the United States and produced one-third of the gold in the world. Popularly, the Gold Rush is remembered as a pleasant adventure in which many prospectors not only became wealthy but furthered national expansion. Yet few prospectors struck it rich, the Gold Rush was characterized by appalling violence, and the environmental consequences of mining were devastating. In this volume, Andrew C. Isenberg confronts these controversies and paradoxes directly. The collection focuses on the social and environmental context and consequences of the Gold Rush, and considers, in the final section, whether the popular memory and scholarly understanding of the Gold Rush reflect that context and those consequences. A Chronology, Questions for Consideration, maps, and a Selected Bibliography all enrich students' understanding of the California Gold Rush.