gold rush
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California Gold Rush of 1849
The first article I will discuss is that of "Legacies of the Gold Rush". The article gives the reader information on how the gold rush began and why. It discusses the mass migration of people to California and the way that foreigners and the original homesteaders were treated by Anglo Saxon Americans. The article uses sources from documents from the California state legislature, diary entries of James Marshall, and census records from California from 1848 to 1858.
The first article begins by telling how California was acquired from Mexico by the United States. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transferred California and other northern states to the United States in 1848. Later that same year, a man by the name of James Marshall found a yellow metal glistening in the American river. News of the discovery of gold in California created a media frenzy of sorts as newspapers covered the story from coast to coast. Ships were soon sailing from east coast ports around the southern tip of South America and up to the ports of San Francisco. Other pioneers chose to travel by land; and with their horses and wagons, they set out traveling west...