The immediate impact was the rush of people into CA. There are reported wagon traffic jams of over 30,000 on the trails to CA. Others came by boat and any means possible. The result of the influx of population was the growth of gold towns in northern CA in the foothills around and above Sacramento. Within two years after the finding of gold in 1848 by John Marshall CA had a large enough population to become a state on Sept. 9, 1850.
It moved a lot of people into California.
Gold was discovered in California in 1849The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
Both California and Alaska had gold rushes.
California because it was discovered at California
People were called 49ers b/c the gold rush happened in 1849, sum 80,000 people migrating to California in search of gold. People in fewer numbers also migrated in 1848, they were called 48ers.
what effect did james polk have on the gold rush
It moved a lot of people into California.
The gold rush brought people to California, many cities were built, and hydrolic mining ruined the environment somewhat by hosing down hills.
the California gold rush
California gold rush
i think that since so many people were cumin to California for the gold rush that the railroads were used and need more
By the gold rush!
yes
the gold rush
The California gold rush was not a problem.
The California Gold Rush took place in the United States.
Yes, California is often called the gold rush state.