California Gold Rush!

The California Gold Rush started on Jan. 24, 1848. It started before California became a state . . . but when people discovered gold there a lot of people from the east rushed over there so they could get land and become wealthy at the same time! The place of California that the most gold was found was in, as we know today, Coloma, California. The news spread around really fast that there was gold and soon over 300,000 people rushed over to get the gold! Some people over seas herd about the gold and arrived afterwards to clam some gold too. People came on ships and in covered wagons.


Most people that came were Americans but the gold attracted many Europeans, Australians and Asians. When people got there they would find gold in rivers and on their banks but then it started to disappear and people had to start mining. Most people who went to California settled there, but some people took a trip there and got their gold but when they returned to their families they had about the same amount that they had when they left. Also San Fransisco was a small town before the gold rush happened and it became the size and the popularity that it is today because of the gold rush!


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